Do you ever feel like you need to have something jumpstart your Christmas spirit? While I believe that an act of generosity seems to be the most consistent means of unlocking Christmas in the heart of the Grinchiest Grinch, I’ll admit that there are certain films – or shows – that get me in the…
This year, there are no blockbusters, no Marvel superheroes, on my list of my favorite films. This year, the films that caught my eye – and held onto my imagination, days later – weren’t the ones with the biggest budgets, or even always the most-known cast and crew. This year, the films were films that…
some say we live in an age of nostalgia round up the recent remakes, the reboots, the revivals, the side stories, the things even just intentionally reminiscent of?other, older, more established things, and prepare to be flooded in the fond feels, deluged in the delights of yesterday, of yesteryear remember?Star Wars? you don’t have to….
do you know about The Last Guardian? it’s this game that’s infamously been in development since 2007; spiritual successor?to 2001’s Ico and 2005’s Shadow of the Colossus it was originally slated for release in 2011, then pushed back, moved from system to system, and re-slated?in 2015 for release in 2016, October, then delayed once again…
i’m highly optimistic about HBO’s new hit show,?Westworld ? (if you’ve not seen it, imagine a sort-of sci-fi, cyberpunk Western, steeped in J.J. Abrams style cerebralism and cliffhangery; a deliberately paced show full of sweeping panoramic shots, shootouts, sex, robots (rinse, recombine, repeat), acting clinics put on by a superb cast (Anthony Hopkins can do…
“The past is already written. Stay too long where you don?t belong and you will never return.”– Three-Eyed Raven The sixth season of HBO’s?Game of Thrones?has received critical renown (winning twelve of its twenty-three nominations for Emmys) and grown the fan base that watches each episode. Combining original material with elements of two previously written…
?There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?? ? -Supreme Leader Snoke, Star Wars: The Force Awakens There?s always been a tension between seeing and believing. Especially over the last few decades, there has been an increasingly heavy emphasis that truth exists only when we can prove things scientifically or experience them for ourselves….
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are the creators of?Catfish, as well as two?Paranormal Activity?films. In their latest,?Nerve, they return to the world of social commentary and criticism of our society’s obsession with social media. Vee (Emma Roberts) is a high school senior who can’t bring herself to tell her mother that she wants to leave…
What happens when you gather the minds behind films like L.A. Confidential, Thelma & Louise, Groundhog Day, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Silence of the Lambs, In the Name of the Father, and Apollo 13? You get a stunning set of interviews about what it means to tell stories, change culture, and create new ways…
Pan’s Labyrinth?or?El Laberinto del Fauno is the best Spanish film that I have ever seen. Okay, let’s be honest: it’s the only Spanish film – and one of a handful of foreign language films – that I have ever seen. But thanks to the name recognition of director Guillermo del Toro, I remember sitting in…
