G Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month February 27, 2023 Glass shatters the modern superheroic mode to moving effect M. Night Shyamalan closes the Eastrail 117 trilogy with a deliberate anticlimax and deep empathy in place of spectacle, and the results are striking.
U Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month February 13, 2023 Unbreakable remains a high point for Shyamalan and Bruce Willis The first of M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 117 trilogy frustrates with its approach to superhero comics as a medium but excels in its drama-and-thrillcraft.
A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month May 16, 2022 Armageddon sees Michael Bay at his most Michael Bay, just before big changes Bay's style reaches an apex in his humanity v. asteroid flick, which changed his reception forever.
& Categories Anniversaries Movies Reviews May 24, 2021 ‘We Will Not Lie Down For Some Schmuck From New Jersey!’ “Hudson Hawk” at 30 Bruce Willis' infamous megaflop may have been greeted with a collective "whuh?", but it rather rules as a movie.
P Categories Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You January 24, 2021 PSH adds a dose of comedy to a sweetly old-fashioned drama Nobody's Fool features a late-in-his-career Paul Newman at his best, and Bruce Willis when he still cared.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month November 29, 2019 “Die Hard With a Vengeance” Gave Me My Best Friend One writer's childhood bond with his best friend was sealed by a fateful late-night screening of Die Hard with a Vengeance.
& Categories Movies August 6, 2019 “The Sixth Sense” & the Weight of Childhood Trauma Haley Joel Osment's gripping performance elevated M. Night Shyamalan's second feature to a horror masterpiece.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 16, 2019 The Tarantino-Heavy “Four Rooms” Needs a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Sign Even with segments by 90s indie luminaries like Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders and Quentin Tarantino, Four Rooms is too herky-jerk to work.
W Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 10, 2019 With “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino Resisted the Mundane Quentin Tarantino's classic 1994 new-cool drama set the stage for a new era of independent film, and saw the end of his own sense of mercy.
G Categories Movies January 16, 2019 Glass Review: M. Night Shyalaman has lost his damn mind Like a hammer through a window, Glass shatters whatever goodwill M. Night Shyamalan had once recovered.
