Though I wasn’t able to make it to the theaters to see the 40th anniversary re-release, I decided that popping in my blurry of Close Encounters of the Third Kind would suffice for this week’s Wayback Wednesday. After this rewatch it’s safe to say that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the only movie
Two film festivals down, many more to go. We have officially entered into the Oscar predicting season. Toronto is ahead followed by NYFF and AFI, which will probably make these predictions hilarious in hindsight. Anyways here are my thoughts and Oscar predictions: The surest thing amongst anyone’s predictions is Dunkirk showing up in a ton
So the summer is officially winding down and as such it’s time to start taking stock of everything that has happened. First up television! Does it feel like anything really moved the needle this year in TV land? There was lots of stuff I really enjoyed but not much shook me to my core, other
Remakes are, and always have been, a staple of not just Hollywood cinema, but film history. Some rise above their previous source material, some don’t. There are few that feel as ill-conceived as Death Note, a poorly slapped together fan fiction film version of what should have been a strong morality tale. Death Note
List time! I was originally going to be doing a 2012 5 years later retrospective but naturally my plans were thwarted. You’ll get to see that piece in a couple of weeks. Today, I want to talk about comedies, specifically the best ones. BBC recently polled a whole bunch of people and asked them what
Like an oasis during these messy times, Queers on BBC was a beacon of light shining on a really interesting part of British/LGBT history. An eight episode miniseries of monologues, the monologues were penned as part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offenses Act and chronicles the LGBT journey across several