It’s been a couple of months since I got a chance to watch this in one sitting, and it still resonates on a near-daily basis. Probably my favorite “character study,” or at least showcase of a character who is never...

This review may contain spoilers. “The most personal is the most creative.” This film school 101 Martin Scorsese quote (which got even more popular when director Bong Joon Ho shouted it out during an Oscar winning acceptance speech) was the...

An essay written for submission to film magazines: Richard Linklater and his filmography clearly express his curiosity about modern life, with many of his characters spiraling into lengthy soliloquies over societal standards, personal ambitions, and expectations, and the power memories have...

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never melted.” The film opens with this D. H. Lawrence quote, and the impression from the jump is that writer/director Scott Cooper channels his personal shame (and American...

It is a dizzying first watch, purposefully fitting in overwhelming dialogue and pitting the audience in the same state of confusion that Cary Grant finds himself in. But once it gets going, it’s pure popcorn: Hollywood at its golden age....

This review may contain spoilers. I feel as though McDonagh underwent a deep undertaking of introspection during the lockdown, using an internal debate and channeling it into two characters.  Colm sees value in a person based on what they provide...

Watched at the Wisconsin Film Festival: In the simplest of terms, the film is about what it means to be a man or a woman in Pakistan. It is the structures developed that force people into corners despite their actual anthropological...

This review may contain spoilers. 1. Ok first, this film is outrageous and completely over the top. The violence. The shoot out. The big asses. The fact that Pacino and De Niro literally sit in a coffee shop together, and...