Wes Anderson recently quipped at the Venice Film Festival that he was a more confident filmmaker in the days of Bottle Rocket. Surely, the comment was made slightly in jest, but it is interesting to …
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Much like last year, the BAFTA nominations provided us with some much needed surprises at this point in the awards season. From some notable acting misses to a rather inspired directors lineup, listen to myself, …
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West Side Stories, ‘Red Rocket’, and ‘The Power of the Dog’
by Nick Kushby Nick KushRemake cynicism begone, Steven Spielberg’s retelling of West Side Story is pretty damn good. The titan filmmaker managed to inject some classic Spielberg Magic™ into the musical that we’ve been missing in film for some time, …
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If you had not heard of The Mauritanian prior to Jodie Foster’s surprise Golden Globes win for best supporting actress, you weren’t alone; I was right there with you. The film — based on Mohamedou …
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We should bar every critic from calling 1917 a “cinematic achievement”, a “technical achievement”, or any derivation of the two. It’s an overused phrase in film discourse as it is, but 1917 has only made …
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The Current War is actually the Director’s Cut of the initial film. The initial film, by most accounts, was a mess. Being distributed by The Weinstein Company, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was forced to release the …
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Film Review – Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
by Olaf Lesniakby Olaf LesniakIt’s as if it was only yesterday that we watched Disney’s live-action remake of The Jungle Book in theaters. Now Warner Bros. and Netflix are teaming up to deliver Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. Comparisons between the two …
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Commercialism and name recognition exist, so we were bound to get another Grinch-centric movie at some point after Ron Howard‘s How the Grinch Stole Christmas slowly faded away from the collective memory of the casual moviegoer. (It has certainly …
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Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that Hollywood today has a significant percentage of British people. Maybe it’s always been like that and I’ve just never noticed, but I feel like England is trying …
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In July, Amazon revealed the first concrete information about it’s upcoming Prime Original The Lord of The Rings prequel. They announced the show runners to be Godzilla vs. Kong and Star Trek 4 writers JD Payne and Patrick …