& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies March 14, 2020 “Do the Right Thing” Remains Spike Lee’s Masterpiece Black cinema (and American cinema as a whole) hasn't been the same since the release of Spike Lee's revolutionary New York drama.
& 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.
C Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies September 28, 2019 Check In To “1408”, No Reservations Needed 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.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 30, 2019 “The Hateful Eight” Gets One Thing Exactly Right The otherwise-spotty Hateful Eight still contains one of Tarantino's greatest sequences.
Q Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 28, 2019 Quentin Tarantino Made a Bloody Antebellum Opus With “Django Unchained” Quibbles about violence and the n-word aside, Quentin Tarantino's slave-era blaxploitation film remains one of his most exciting works.
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.
S Categories Movies June 27, 2019 Spider-Man Far From Home Review: Peter Parker’s European Vacation It doesn't reach the swinging heights of Homecoming, but Jon Watts' follow-up gets Marvel's Phase Four off to a charming enough start.
S Categories Movies June 12, 2019 Shaft Review: We Can’t Dig All This Boomer Humor Sam Jackson returns with two more generations of Shafts in a slick actioner let down by milquetoast jabs at millennials.
L Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 28, 2019 Love, Lust & Memory in “Eve’s Bayou” Kasi Lemmons' wistful, eerie, criminally underrated directorial debut features complex characters & asks unsettling questions about memory & perspective.
C Categories Movies March 5, 2019 Captain Marvel Review: Marvel Takes the Origin Story Higher, Further, Faster Marvel's first female-led superhero film is a modest but meaningful success.
