“David Lynch’s ‘Dune’ Might Not Be Perfect, But Its New 4K Restoration Reminds Us It’s Admirable”

I will tolerate no dissent on my opinion that this very flawed and ungainly movie is pretty darn cool. Continue reading →

“High Flying Bird And America’s Modern-day Auction Block”

Steve Soderbergh picks up an iPhone and in accordance with the words of the great Tarell Alvin McCraney, he puts together a movie arguing that pro sports and slavery aren’t that dissimilar as institutions. The results: Great. Continue reading →

Review: The House with a Clock in Its Walls, 2018, dir. Eli Roth

So imagine this: There’s a house, and it’s littered with clocks, but there’s also a clock in its walls and it’s the clock in the walls that everyone’s fussing about. Doesn’t make a ton of real world sense, but it makes plenty of movie world sense, and presto, there you have it, Eli Roth’s The House … Continue reading →

Review: Inside Out, 2015, dir. Peter Docter

The speed and immediacy of access we all enjoy courtesy of the Internet tends to breed knee-jerk thoughtlessness. As a result, we live in a non-complex world where a single strike against an established entity in the entertainment industry – a movie, a television show, a celebrity – is enough to declare it substantially bankrupt. Years … Continue reading →