100 Greatest Films of All Time

If you felt that tremor in the #filmtwitter ground the other day, it’s because Empire Magazine released a list of the top 100 films of all time as voted on by their readers. Lists like these are subjective, but I can’t help but feel like they tried to soften the blow by releasing what is

Film Review: Baby Driver

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

Film Review: Wonder Woman

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,

Oscar Predictions: Post Cannes

I have to confess something to you all, this might be the toughest early predictions I’ve ever done. Not because it was tough to select films, but because the prestige fare we seem to be getting looks so boring. Aside from Hugh Jackman’s musical and Call Me By Your Name, the field looks so bland

Pilot Review: Still Star-Crossed

Romeo and Juliet is one of history’s most enduring stories and adaptations are never in short supply. Few adaptations want to move past the tale of the two lovers, but Still Star-Crossed takes the deaths of those characters as the inciting incident to tell it’s story about what happens afterwards. To be honest, I hate

Film Review: Alien: Covenant

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

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