Film Reviews and Analysis
Film Reviews and Analysis
Joe MooreA lot of superlatives have been thrown around when describing Brady Corbet’s newest film The Brutalist. But one word has come to define and surmise both the film and the…
Joe MooreLeigh Whannell’s newest film Wolf Man is both a technical achievement and a narrative bore. This pseudo-remake of the well-known lycanthrope legend starts off strong before diving into too many…
Joe MooreGia Coppola’s latest film The Last Showgirl is a fascinating look at life in the arts. Well, not exactly the arts. But maybe arts adjacent? Unlike Paul Verhoeven’s inscrutable Showgirls,…
Joe MooreTokyo Story was not a success on its initial release, especially with international audiences. The film is highly specific to Japanese culture and is slowly paced. It’s not until about…
Joe MooreChristian Gudegast returns to the Den of Thieves world with Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. Where the first film was a smaller contained Los Angeles-based crime story, this one is…
Joe MooreJames Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is barely a movie. There is very little conflict through the first two acts. The main conflict of whether Dylan will go electric is softened…
Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 is a masterpiece in cinema and narrative expression. 8 1/2 is a film about film. More specifically, it’s a film about art and the artists who…
Joe MooreA new year can only mean one thing. Numerous lists spouting the best films of the previous twelve months. 2024 was a bit of a mixed bag when it came…
Robert Eggers has struck magic with his Christmas day release Nosferatu. This remake of a 1922 silent film of the same name bears the same general plot but creates a…
Luca Guadignino’s adaptation of Queer, a 1985 William S. Burrough novella, is a dreamy, drug-induced, sex-filled, fever dream. Queer stars Daniel Craig as William Lee. A heroin junkie living in…
