Review

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us to experience life from perspectives outside of our own. The medium reveals the world and those who inhabit it with singular precision as it observes who we are with a magnifying glass. But while plenty of titles accomplish this effect, none have done […]

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall joined forces to tell the story of America’s push toward the Pacific. “How The West Was Won” was a tremendous undertaking. Produced through the three-strip Cinerama process, it featured a deep ensemble of high-wattage stars James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Gregory Peck,

Seven Mummies is a strange title for a movie. At first glance, one might assume it is a modern mummy movie, but in reality, it’s a take on the Western ghost town genre popularized in films like Ghost Town (1988), Phantom Town (1997), or Purgatory (1999). Oh, and if you want to check out my

The first half of ‘A Sacrifice‘ is remarkably dull considering that it starts off showing viewers nothing new. It is not even non-captivating, rather it is significantly forgettable the type of film whose title escapes you at any point of the viewing. To make things worse, the final act escalates to a whole new level

After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos is back in provocateur mode. Working more in the vein of his earlier, more surreal flicks like “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” the filmmaker’s latest reunites him with Efthimis Filippou, the co-writer of those movies, to deliver

to grasp. I purchased it for one British Pound because it features Fred Ward as its lead. Moreover, being an 80’s kid as I am, the images and memories of Lea Thompson are forever engrained in my mind. How can one not love and appreciate both of these actors in an action film? This combination

“God saved me so I could give you life.” So said concentration camp survivor Liliane Halfin to her daughter, Diane Simone Michelle. Weighing in at 49 pounds after being freed from Auschwitz, Lily gave birth just 11 months later to a girl who grew up and changed the world of fashion and its associated business

When the young, melancholic Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) begs her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson) to pick her up from summer camp early, it feels urgent. “I’m going to kill myself,” she says. “I said I’m going to kill myself if you don’t come get me.” Janet arrives the next morning, but Lacy’s tune has already changed:

Blood Tide, Demon’s Island, and The Red Tide are all part of the same movie title grouping, and they feature Martin Cove, James Earl Jones, and many other stars. For some reason, I was under the impression that BLOODTIDE was a slasher film but turns out, it isn’t. There are also kids throwing cats in

The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared Native women, fractured families, lost language, and forced assimilation. Cinema has also played a role in this cultural violence, depicting Native people as stubborn, violent barriers to progress. But what, effectively, is this progress? What are we as a society supposed to be