& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 12, 2020 “Oldboy” remains as intimate as it is brutal A half-remembered tale of revenge, Park Chan-wook's 2003 thriller is still as steeped in extreme cinema as it is ancient tragedy.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 22, 2020 “Phone Booth” is a tightly wound study in obsolescence Joel Schumacher's cracked tableau of New York City's shifts at the turn of the millennium remains a time capsule in the guise of a neo-noir.
“ Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 22, 2020 “Tigerland” looks at the pre-war pain of young (and talented) men Joel Schumacher's sensitive wartime drama gives the world Colin Farrell and explores the painful tribulations of young men waiting for war.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 18, 2020 “Elephant” forced us to see the normal inside the horrific Bringing the works of Tarr and Akerman to modern America, Gus Van Sant's drama about student life around a school shooting remains a vital work.
H Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies May 30, 2020 How I learned to stop worrying and love “Freddy vs. Jason” Freddy vs. Jason is not a good movie - and that's not just okay, it may well be transgressive.
C Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies January 19, 2020 Connection, Consumption and “Coffee and Cigarettes” Jim Jarmusch's laidback anthology of fateful celebrity meetings lays bare the communal value of commodity.
R Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 25, 2019 Reflecting on the musical theater magic of “School of Rock” Richard Linklater's 2003 Jack Black comedy is a riotous, rocking celebration of creativity and the joy of music, and holds up like a killer solo.
1 Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 25, 2019 16 Years Later, “Kill Bill Vol. 1” Still Cuts to the Quick While it divided viewers at the time, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 remains a testament to the pop culture gadfly's desire to hone his action chops.
K Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 23, 2019 Kill Bill Vol. 2: The Whole Backwards Affair Watching the Kill Bill saga in reverse order yields some fascinating rewards.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 21, 2019 “The Matrix Revolutions” Closes the Trilogy at the Edge of Hell The Matrix Revolutions, the Wachowskis' final film in the trilogy, is just as flawed as Reloaded, but carries heaps of visual and thematic weight.
