Movie Review: Tigertail
If you keep making good things in Hollywood, at some point some studio will give you money to make whatever story you want. Alan Yang …
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Movie Review: Blow the Man Down
Small town Maine isn’t exactly high on the list of Hollywood representation. Maybe that’s because a host of powerful women are burying stories like Blow …
Movie Review: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Romcoms during criminal enterprises have a proud cinematic history. Alfred Hitchcock took the formula and bascially made it an art form. Art being the operative …
Movie Review: Deathgasm
Apparently Sam Raimi’s horror movies made it down to New Zealand. Jason Lei Howden takes a page out of the low budget horror master’s playbook …
Movie Review: Wendy
Benh Zeitlin burst onto the scene with Beasts of the Southern Wild, a revelation of a film about a young girl growing up in a …
Movie Review: Onward
I’ve said this a few times now, but Toy Story 3 represented a turning point in Pixar’s history. After that crowning achievement, Disney Animation poached …
Movie Review: Emma.
Emma is the Jane Austen story most Americans have probably actually seen. I know Pride and Prejudice is well known, but Clueless is basically Emma …
Movie Review: Birds of Prey
And we’ve come full circle on the superhero genre. Previously, the genre’s low point was the obscenely colorful Batman & Robin, which was all flash, …
Movie Review: Weathering With You
Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement left a gaping hole in the Japanese animated moviemaking world, with fans wondering who would dare try to step into his shoes. …
Movie Review: Bad Boys For Life
At the start of the millennium, it took a while for action movies outside of the Fast and Furious franchise to get off the ground. …