In preparation for the worldwide debut of Top Gun: Maverick, we’re taking a look back at the film that started it all: Top Gun. Growing up, I wanted nothing more than to be a fighter pilot in the Navy. My grandad and […]
One of the best experiences is going into a movie blind and realizing that what you are watching is a masterpiece. This was my experience with Robert Altman’s incredible adaptation of Ed Graczyk’s play Come Back to the Five & […]
The Purge franchise began with 2013’s The Purge, but it was by no means a promising start. Among other things, it didn’t encompass the full ideology of the purge. Thankfully, there was 2014’s The Purge: Anarchy, a film that showed […]
I do not particularly care for 2013’s The Purge. In fact, it is arguably one of the most inert genre movies of the last ten years. It may have a hell of a hook, but it does virtually nothing to […]
Once upon a time… No, there was once a time that I could spend whole hours of summer coolness in a daydream. For every child knows the secrets of shut-eye, the private going-ons of a world as beautiful as the […]
The earliest works of an artist have always had my fascination. These projects show in broad strokes what set the artist on their path to creation in a raw, unfiltered way. An artist’s first projects are always rough around the […]
For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with the paranormal. I used to take my friends to a hotel downtown, where we would pay respects to the haunted painting of a little girl in white, […]
Talk about a movie whose title works terribly with search engine optimization algorithms. Let’s not forget, the title is not just Borat. The title is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It’s not enough […]
When I look back on my memories of trick-or-treating, all I can really remember is the strain of two bobbing peepholes. I only remember as much as those little beads of light. And yet, what horrors would cross them. Droopy-eyed […]
For many genre movies, it is often a challenge to balance storytelling traditions with storytelling innovations. If a film leans into old genre tropes, odds are that the final product will spark little engagement. Meanwhile, if it spends time breaking […]
