In 2006 you were either a Cars or Talladega Nights kid. I was the latter. My parents always took me to see the PG-13 manchild comedies of this era since they were over going to the kids movies pretty early on. They were a bit horrified by what I was hearing and yet, we were […]
In a sweet case of a casting coup, Heads or Tails? directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis were lucky enough to secure the services of Academy Award nominee and national treasure, John C. Reilly, to play the legendary Buffalo Bill Cody and the extra American ingredient for their Italian-set Western. Following in the […]
With so few public appearances save for a sit-down at South by Southwest and an infamous run-in with TMZ, Terrence Malick, and by extension his films and process, can sometimes feel like a mystery. Fortunately, The Criterion Collection, can help solve budding cinephiles’ questions about the legendary director with 4K UHD releases of the three […]
With 2002’s Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese and his then-emerging lead Leonardo DiCaprio’s collaboration had only just begun. Then, it was the director’s long-planned project of a Howard Hughes biopic that would continue the journey for the two, a collaboration that would total six films in the 22 years following their first pairing. DiCaprio […]
You know, this is the film I want them to remember me by. Twenty-five years ago, then 26-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson directed and wrote one of the boldest and wildest movies Hollywood has ever seen. Excessive, explicit, and entertaining, no film like it existed. It features a sprawling narrative with multiple characters and storylines. The […]
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Awards season is upon us and I totally forgot that the Golden Globe Nominations were being announced this morning until someone reminded me. Maybe part of me put it out of my mind ever since my Hollywood boyfriend and favorite show of all time was snubbed by several other awards shows last season, although not […]
The Collective Fabric in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia
Nature vs. Nurture is one of my favorite philosophical debates. On one side of the ring, René Descartes, suggesting that human beings are born with innate ideas that inform our decision-making and relationship with the world for the rest of our lives. Across from Descartes stands John Locke, who suggested that human beings begin life […]
Paul Thomas Anderson is a living, working, current filmmaker which puts him at an extreme disadvantage to being on my radar. I have a proclivity for the work of directors long passed or those with a surrealist bent, neither category would be home to Paul Thomas Anderson. Each year, however, I embark on the quest […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like A Haunting in Venice might not exist. Even giants of literature like Agatha Christie have a dud or two on their celebrated vitae. Agatha’s later-career effort of Hallowe’en Party […]
The more-than-competent Daisy Edgar-Jones leads the book-to-film adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing as Catherine “Kya” Clark. Kya lives alone in the marshlands outside the fictional North Carolina town of Barkley Cove. The film weaves two timelines together while keeping the focus on Kya. It’s 1969 and Kya is on trial for the murder of […]
John Patrick Shanley’s dramedy Wild Mountain Thyme, the screen adaptation of his own 2014 Broadway play Outside Mullinger, matches the name of a well-worn poetic Scottish/Irish ballad. Speaking longingly of companionship amid the natural beauty of the Gaelic countryside, the wellspring of stirring imagery coming from its lyrics could inspire potential romance out of damn […]
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