There’s a comfort in sitting down for a Marvel movie in that you pretty much know what you are in store for. Even when the films underwhelm, they are tonally consistent. With this kind of audience understanding and production, you can kind of take for granted what it actually takes to make films that connect
There’s something about these Richard Linklater films, man. It’s hard to know exactly how to describe the phenomenon that is a Linklater picture, with each of his movies containing a spirit that can’t be seen, but a spirit that has such a tangibility that audience members come away from a project enveloped by his world building, his characters, and his themes. His latest film, Everybody Wants Some, manages to be so many things at once: a sports film, a coming of age story, a brilliant comedy, and a deep rumination on college life and the human condition.
If any of you have followed me or this site since it has been around, you are familiar with me saying “*squints*” as a reaction to things. I often use it as a form of shade, to signify something that I think is ridiculous and deserving of little to no further examination. There’s probably a
It seems strange to start my review of The Witch with how I felt by the end, but it seems as good a place as any. In fact, letting you know that I felt shook to my core and completely unable to deal is probably the kind of reassurance one would need when considering whether
At what point does being self-aware of a genre actually start to work against you? This was a question I pondered upon leaving my packed and pretty amped up screening of Deadpool. Surrounded by people who were raving about the film, I found myself in a weird place of feeling like I was giving the movie a bad grade, despite my immense like for the film.
What do you do when a filmmaker that has made some very influential films seems to be stuck in a rut? Well there’s not much to do other than be mad and shake your head, much like this reviewer did upon leaving the 70mm Roadshow screening of The Hateful Eight. This film, as presented to us, finds the director at his most self indulgent and lazy, a man more concerned with the appearance of a good film rather than making one.