B Categories Anniversaries Features Movies May 27, 2021 Between Bayhem and banality: “Pearl Harbor” at 20 With his 2001 epic, Michael Bay solidified himself as an all-American auteur, as well as the bombastic concept of Bayhem.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies December 27, 2020 “Gone Girl” is the David Fincher rom-com we never knew we had David Fincher's meticulous anti-murder-mystery is a curious marriage of thriller and romantic comedy.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 22, 2020 “Good Will Hunting” was Gus Van Sant’s big swing for the normies Gus Van Sant's Oscar-winning character drama is a safe, middlebrow nuts-and-bolts picture as formative as it is uncreative for the filmmaker.
B Categories Movies March 6, 2020 Ben Affleck Finds His Way Back to “The Way Back” The much-memed movie star finds his footing again in a familiar but satisfying redemption story.
H Categories Movies February 13, 2020 Here She Comes, Watch Your Step: 10 Pop Culture Femme Fatales A look at some of our favorite movie & TV characters who used body & brains to get what they want -- even if it killed someone.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 10, 2019 The Double Nostalgia of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” Richard Linklater's 1993 coming-of-age classic is a battle of dueling, complicated nostalgias around '60s youth culture.
T Categories Movies March 14, 2019 Triple Frontier Review: Twice the Stars, Half the Impact JC Chandor's rogue-military actioner is dull as dishwater, and wastes its cast of rugged character actors.
