There’s water, water everywhere in “Causeway,” the strong cinematic debut of accomplished theatre mainstay Lila Neugebauer — and oh so much to think about. The laconic Lynsey (a resurgent Jennifer Lawrence in what is plainly her career’s finest performance) explains…
Read moreHorror films are the one constant in Cinema. As audiences love to be scared, their popularity endures. From the terrifying Frankenstein’s monster that was made by the Thomas Edison movie studio in 1910, through the Universal Monster movies of the…
Read moreWhile Netflix and Disney+ continue to churn out original content, Amazon Prime Video is no opponent to be discounted in the “streaming wars.” With the unprecedented success of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon Prime proved…
Read moreAn argument could be made that using voiceover narration in movies is poor filmmaking, a compromise made by studios or directors that shows little regard for both audiences and fine art. After all, the power of film and television is…
Read moreSift through some of his best work, and you will find that Steven Spielberg has always been a filmmaker charged by notions of love and ache for families, both those we are born into and those we select for ourselves. Though his…
Read moreWith the arrival of Brett Donowho’s “The Old Way”, Nicolas Cage gets the chance to star in his first Western. While the genre is far from its heyday of the 40’s and 50’s, respect for “oaters” still lives in the…
Read moreThe anticipation of seeing a certain film is half of the fun of being a movie fan. It's hard to think of anything as exciting as a big release getting closer and closer, eventually sitting in the theater waiting for…
Read moreAvatar: The Way of Water was quite a long film. Clocking in at 3 hours and 12 minutes, James Cameron tells a phenomenal story and tells the audience to plan their bathroom breaks carefully. There are even rumors that the…
Read moreRian Johnson’s “Glass Onion” kicks off with a giddily entertaining opening: It’s May 2020, the early days of covid, and several old friends receive, one after the other, a box. It comes from their friend Miles Braun, the eccentric tech…
Read moreIn the last decade, Damien Chazelle has developed into one of the premiere filmmakers of his generation producing large-scale epics like his newest film Babylon, but also venturing into quieter territory with his film First Man. Chazelle started out with…
Read moreThe science fiction genre has gained significant critical acclaim in the last decade. From the imaginative storytelling in Annihilation, the innovative costume and set design in The Matrix, and the sociocultural commentary in Snowpiercer, the science fiction genre offers a…
Read moreWhen fans complain about the inclusion of women of color in action franchises, they often fall back on the same talking points: it’s not about sexism, it’s just that filmmakers should create different, original movies for Black and Brown actors. Gina Prince Bythewood has…
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