D Categories Movies Reviews October 10, 2020 Don’t enlist for “The War With Grandpa” Robert De Niro makes another baffling script choice with a bland family comedy about a spoiled kid who can't bear to give up his bedroom.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month July 18, 2020 “Batman and Robin” struggled under the weight of its own excess Joel Schumacher's second go at the Batman franchise has its undeniable charms, but relied too much on tired stereotypes.
R Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 12, 2020 Reclaiming the queerness of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” Gus Van Sant's queer Western was received with scorn by critics when it first came out, but its celebration of the abject deserves reconsideration.
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.
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.
C Categories TV April 25, 2019 Chambers Review: Netflix’s Latest Offers Striking Visual Imagery and Familiar Tropes Chambers, the latest supernatural drama from Netflix, is gorgeously shot, but its tale of a haunted heart transplant loses the script pretty quickly.