One of Martin Scorsese’s more underrated gangster dramas depicts Sin City as a place where dreams & nightmares […]
Category Archive: Features
Columns, thinkpieces, and opinions on every inch of pop culture.
An analysis of Goodfellas’ cinema redefining single take tracking shot.
At CIFF, we take a look at religious drama Maternal, episodic romantic dramedy Babyteeth, German potboiler Lara, and historical queer horror Carmilla.
A look at Martin Scorsese’s misguided musical, and the underestimation of camp.
It’s Newman and Cruise’s picture first, but Scorsese’s work on it is still a pleasure.
Joker tops the box office again while The Addams Family excels & Gemini Man struggles.
Martin Scorsese’s black comedy about one hellish night offers a trapped in amber portrait of 80s New York […]
One of the inspirations behind Joker takes a funny but more chilling approach to the angry white man […]
We look back on Martin Scorsese’s 1980 boxing drama, and how Joe Pesci became one of the most pivotal players in the filmmaker’s stable.
Martin Scorsese’s gritty drama about twisted loyalty to friends, family & God remains one of his strongest films. […]
Bernard Herrmann’s iconic score is a supporting character in Martin Scorsese’s drama about a dangerous loner.
Joker’s box office take this opening weekend is nothing to laugh at, as the DC Comics experiment paid off handsomely for Warner Bros.
This month, we celebrate The Irishman by looking back on the works of one of New Hollywood’s most enduring voices.
While much of the final cut works, earlier versions of the script went to deeper & scarier places.
DreamWorks has another winner as “Downton Abbey” politely steps aside.
Childe Roland to The Dark Tower came, and unfortunately, he brought all of us along with him.
Frank Darabont’s adaptation of the Stephen King story is one of the bleakest, most nihilistic takes on his material.
2007’s Stephen King thriller is a wonderfully economic take on the horror writer’s sensibilities, a real-time flytrap you can’t help getting stuck in.
