THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016)
byIdentity and the search for self play an integral role in the structure of good YA fiction. It’s therefore as ironic as it is wasteful…
Film Review
A collection of articles concerning film review or retrospectives.
HIGHLANDER (1986)
byHighlander was released in North America on 7 March 1986 to mixed-to-negative reviews and little success at the U.S box office. A visually stylish sword-and-sorcery…
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY (2016)
byFor all its critical and commercial success back in 2000, Ang Lee’s martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon doesn’t get talked about all that…
AUDITION (1999)
byThe early-2000s were the era of the Japanese horror movie. Films like Ring, Dark Water, and The Grudge occupied the supernatural part of the genre,…
SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
byWonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American feminists who came…
BONE TOMAHAWK (2015)
byBone Tomahawk is, for the most part, a character-driven western with lots of talky scenes. It’s also a bloody and violent western with sequences reminiscent…
SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE (2015)
bySleeping with Other People was self-deprecatingly pitched by its own writer-director as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes” when it debuted at Sundance. Yet Leslye…
OUT 1 (1971)
byJacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching Arrow’s release of…
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
byWith Brooklyn, Carol, and now The Finest Hours, films set in 1952 are having a bit of a moment. Here, the story being told is…
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
byWhile the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the rule,…
DEADPOOL (2016)
byLet’s start with the good news: this version of Deadpool is a hundred times more entertaining than the first outing for the offbeat superhero, in…
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
byBased both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride & Prejudice &…