The 1980s Was Rough on Westerns, Except for This Kevin Costner Classic
The 1980s marked a sea change for Western movies. The genre that was made so famous in the 40s, 50, 60s, and even into the 70s started to become relegated as big Hollywood studios moved away from shoot-em-up style films…
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Why You Should Be Exicted for It’s Return to Theaters
Oldboy is not only one of the greatest revenge thrillers ever made but also one of the single greatest pieces of Korean film to exist. That's not an exaggeration, either. Making multiple "greatest films of all time" lists across several…
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Lily Gladstone Devastates in Indigenous Epic
I am still searching for my words; my thoughts first ran dry in the opening minutes of the shattering and evocative “Killers of the Flower Moon.” It begins with the Osage tribal elders mourning the loss of their language and…
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Theater Camp Movie Details, Film Cast, Genre & Rating
Release Date July 14, 2023 Cast Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, Jimmy Tatro, Patti Harrison, Nathan Lee Graham, Ayo Edebiri, Owen Thiele, Alan Kim, Alexander Bello, Bailee Bonick, Kyndra Sanchez, Donovan Colan, Vivienne Sachs, Quinn Titcomb, Caroline Aaron, Amy…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Movie Details, Film Cast, Genre & Rating
Release Date August 11, 2023 Running Time Not available Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked…
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Film Review: ‘Master Gardener’- A Master Screenwriter In Top Form
Rebirth of the soul. “God’s lonely man” writing in his journal of a past littered with sin. A reach for a final grace. We are in the always intoxicating world of Paul Schrader whose “Master Gardener” arrives to give modern…
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Beyond the Screen #33 – Killers of the Flower Moon Trailer Debuts
After years (repeat: years) of having single still to its name (you know the one, DiCaprio and Gladstone sitting at that damned table), Apple has at last dropped the much-anticipated trailer for Martin Scorsese’s period crime-epic Killers of the Flower…
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Michael Mann’s Heat Is a Crime Epic About the Myopia of Being a Workaholic
There is a scene in Michael Mann’s L.A.-set cops and robbers masterpiece Heat that you have probably seen, even if, for whatever reason, you have yet to see the film itself. Al Pacino’s live-wire LAPD hotshot Vincent Hanna has spent…
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5 Reasons Why Robert Pattinson’s Performance in Netflix’s The King is So Iconic
The epic war film The King, directed by David Michôd, was one of the most anticipated releases on Netflix back in 2019. The film adapts several of Shakespeare’s plays on English history and kings during the Hundred Years’ War. King…
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Jonathan Glazer’s Often Brilliant Examination Of Complicity
CANNES – If anyone tells you the world doesn’t need any more films about the holocaust or the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis in 2023, we’d suggest you politely correct them. Despite over eighty years of cinema on the subject,…
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‘It Ain’t Over’: Film Review
At the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Stars game, fans voted Hank Aaron, Johnny Bench, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays as the best players the game has ever seen. Yogi Berra, a 10-time World Series winner as a catcher for the…
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James Mangold Took a Classic Western and Made It Even Better
The Western genre is one of the oldest in cinematic history; 1903’s The Great Train Robbery kicked off a style of American storytelling that has grown and evolved over the course of a century. Many of these stories are inherently…
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