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The Wild Robot (2024) Review
The Wild Robot (2024)Director: Chris SandersScreenplay: Chris SandersStarring: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Matt Berry, Catherine O’Hara, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu Remember the best years of animation? The Disney Renaissance, the rise of Dreamworks? The period in which even the financial failures were noble and the seemingly unimaginative held charm?…
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‘Ed Wood’ at 30 – Review
Ed Wood (1994)Director: Tim BurtonScreenwriters: Scott Alexander, Larry KaraszewskiStarring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Bill Murray, G.D. Spradlin, Lisa Marie, Mike Starr, Max Casella, Brent Hinkley, Juliet Landau, George “The Animal” Steele, Ned Bellamy, Stanley DeSantis, Vincent D’Onofrio Following the critical and box office successes of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands…
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)Director: Todd PhillipsScreenwriters: Scott Silver, Todd PhillipsStarring: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Harry Lawtey, Bill Smitrovich, Catherine Keener The Cult of Joker was one of 2019’s most significant developments both within the art of cinema and the industry of theatrical exhibition. Awards bodies adjudged the film to be close to…
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Megalopolis (2024) Review
Megalopolis (2024)Director: Francis Ford CoppolaScreenwriter: Francis Ford CoppolaStarring: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne It isn’t often that a director gets an opportunity to release a large-scale passion project, especially in the current state of the film industry. For fans of cinema, there’s joy to be found simply…
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The Substance (2024) Review
The Substance (2024)Director: Coralie FargeatScreenwriter: Coralie FargeatStarring: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid In Jack Halberstam’s “Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters,” the author writes that Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” “suggests that it is people (or at least bodies) who people fear, not ghosts or Gods, devils or monks, windswept castles or labyrinthine…
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His Three Daughters (2024) Review
His Three Daughters (2024)Director: Azazel JacobsScreenwriter: Azazel JacobsStarring: Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) has been living at home with her father, Vincent (Jay O. Sanders), as his cancer gets progressively worse. The decline in his health has become her entire world, and she has to adapt to coping as everything she…
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The Company of Wolves (1984) Review
The Company of Wolves (1984)Director: Neil JordanScreenwriters: Angela Carter, Neil JordanStarring: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Tusse Silberg, Micha Bergese Toward the end of Neil Jordan’s 1984 fantasy horror film The Company of Wolves, a little girl, dressed in a blood red cape, walks alone in a silent wood on the way to her…
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Speak No Evil (2024) Review
Speak No Evil (2024)Director: James WatkinsScreenwriters: James Watkins, Christian Tafdrup, Mads TafdrupStarring: James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough, Kris Hitchen Politeness is an unspoken agreement we all follow – a way to keep the peace, even when we’re uncomfortable. In American culture in particular, we are conditioned to…
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The Critic (2023) Review
The Critic (2023)Director: Anand TuckerScreenwriters: Patrick MarberStarring: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Romola Garai, Alfred Enoch Whenever a filmmaker presents an idea to a small British film company, they are restricted in what they can do to get funding. Small genre films (low budget horrors), wartime dramas, kitchen-sink mumblecore, or…
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West Side Story (1961) Review
West Side Story (1961)Directors: Robert Wise, Jerome RobbinsScreenwriter: Ernest LehmanStarring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, Simon Oakland, William Bramley Like films, music often startles us by how it knows us. With no prior encounter, the right piece can read us, leave us high on emotions we kept secret. In a…