17 Blocks: review
Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it picked up the Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film, Davy Rothbart’s 17 Blocks is a compelling, two-decades-long look at...
Category: Film and movies
Joker film: worth the hype but ultimately falls short
With ticket prices and streaming being what they are these days, long gone are the times when I would drop into the theaters just to see something—anything—out of sheer curiosity. Movies have...
El camino: the opening of television to cinema
A nostalgic generation was eagerly awaiting the premiere of Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. It's only been six years since the last season of the acclaimed series ended, but fans missed...
5 Satanic panic films for the Hallowe’en season
Welcome to the spooky season! Let’s talk about one of my personal favorite heroes of horror: the Devil! The devil has always had a home in popular culture. Our parents’ parents’ parents have...
An exploration of environmental racism through the documentary ‘There’s something in the Water’
The actress Ellen Page, known worldwide for the films Juno and Inception, recently released a documentary that she directed and produced to raise awareness of one of the problems faced by the...
Scary monsters and super creeps
I have been fascinated by monsters from an early age. I can’t remember when it started, but at some point during my childhood, I began to think that vampires, phantoms (specifically, the Phantom of...
Zombie Tidal Wave surprisingly excellent successor to the Sharknado throne
I watched Zombie Tidal Wave this weekend fully expecting to hate on it. The sleepy reception of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die has struck the point home that zombie films are real life dead;...
Review: Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
There is a point in Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut when soldier-assassin, Capt. Willard emerges from Col. Kurtz’s compound, shrouded in black, hair like an oil slick, eyes blazing with Nietzschean...
Biopics give us something to hope for
Cast your eye over the films released in the past few years and those slated to come out in the near future and you'll notice a trend. Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Judy—these films aren't...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
“Living is an adventure and a challenge…If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.” Opening with the words of the great jazz musician himself, the tone is set for Stanley...