Dunkirk, the new film by Christopher Nolan, is…an experience, to say the least. A non-linear approach to one of the most interesting situations to come about in World War II, the film employs everything possible to keep the audience in it’s thrall. Dunkirk very much reminds me of 12 Years a Slave, and not just
We are living in a golden age of movies about women behaving badly getting greenly. That doesn’t mean that these films will be all that great. Case in point, the misfire that is The Little Hours, an R-rated take on The Decameron, which can settle into a groove enough to truly exploit and support it’s
The reving of engines and thumping of a sound track are staples of the action genre. However, by the end of Baby Driver they might as well have been nails on a chalkboard, as Edgar Wright’s newest film is a cacophony of images and sounds painted onto a very thin plot. Baby Driver tells the
What a joy it is to be able to go into a theater and root for a hero! The DC extended universe, even with my enjoyment of Man of Steel, has been bereft of heroes with strong journeys, fully formed character, and decent screenplays. Leave it to the woman to come clean up the mess,
Someone needs to sit Ridley Scott down in a comfortable room and tell him that it might be time to let well enough alone. His newest outing in the Alien franchise, Alien: Covenant, can lay claim to not being as entirely soul sucking and awful as its predecessor, Prometheus. However, beyond that backhanded compliment, there
Colossal is a movie many people told me not to read much about. When I heard about it playing film festivals all I knew was that Anne Hathaway was playing an alcoholic and it was a monster movie. That honestly would have been enough to get me into the theater. It probably goes against writing