LFF 2021 Review: Petite Maman – “Utterly charming”
Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a quieter and more playful film. But despite its lean running time of...
Read MoreReview: Halloween Kills – “A total shambles, but I loved it”
Halloween Kills is, in many ways, a total shambles. For a film that was pitched as the middle section of a planned trilogy, it feels...
Read MoreLFF 2021 Review: Language Lessons – “A bittersweet film that will resonate with our need for connection after long months apart”
Stories featuring Zoom have been a growing trope of filmmaking in the time of Covid-19. But Natalie Morales’ debut feature deftly avoids...
Read MoreLFF 2021 Review: The French Dispatch – “Everything You Want from a Wes Anderson Movie, and Plenty That You Didn’t”
I’ll start with an anecdote about Wes Anderson, king of anecdotal cinema. I had been invited to a screening of The Life...
Read MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Free Guy, The Green Knight, The Flash, Inglourious Basterds, Space Jam, Blithe Spirit and more
Whoo boy, we’ve got a great week of releases this week! One of my favorite movies of the year hits home video, we get a couple of...
Read MoreReview: Dune – “It might just be the epic sci-fi saga we’ve been waiting for”
Timothée Chalamet’s pale and angular face looms large, camera tight on his furrowed brow, inner cogs turning, perfect curls twisted into a...
Read MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Night of the Animated Dead, The Nevers, The Awakening, Guilt and more
We have a small release slate this week, with no theatrical tentpoles, no major A-list releases, and a small amount of titles. Still, I...
Read MoreBond Blog: Moonraker – A James Bond Retrospective
Moonraker came out just as the 70s were coming to an end. Using the same team as brought about the success of The Spy Who Loved Me: Lewis...
Read MoreReview: Giddy Stratospheres
To me, the 2000s don’t seem that long ago, but perhaps that is a sign of the times and how strange the passage of it has felt lately. Yet...
Read MoreReview: No Time To Die – “ Bond has never felt more real, more human”
For anyone left who may not know, No Time To Die is the 25th James Bond film, as well as the 5th and final appearance for Daniel Craig as...
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