Who doesn’t love a film about cinema itself? A while ago, I reviewed Trumbo, a film that told the true story of Dalton Trumbo, the screenwriter who was blacklisted from Hollywood for his Communist leanings. However interesting as that concept is, the film itself was mediocre. That wasn’t, however, the last time Communism in Hollywood…
Deadpool (2016)
I believe it was last year when the legendary Steven Spielberg theorized that the rise in superhero films appears to be closely related to the rise of Western films almost a century ago. He also theorized that the superhero genre itself will soon fade away, just like the western genre did, going from exhilarating and…
Ranking the 88th Academy Award Nominees: Best Director
Possibly my favorite category, Best Director has never failed to amaze me. In past years, this award was nearly always given as a supplement to the Best Picture award. However, in the last few years, it has become an award almost independent from the Best Picture award, and while it does have some correlation still,…
Tomorrow Night (1998)
I love independent films (which is not a new statement in any way), because they can tell stories you would never see in mainstream cinema. I love discovering new independent films, and honestly I don’t know if there is an independent comedy that I wouldn’t watch or at least be somewhat intrigued by. However, there…
The Visit (2015)
Has there ever been a name in filmmaking that went from being the sign of a brilliantly minded young auteur to being synonymous with absolute trash than M. Night Shyamalan? His breakthrough film, The Sixth Sense, was a masterpiece and showed a young filmmaker with an abundance of talent. Slowly but steadily, his abilities seemed…
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Have you ever noticed that everyone has that one film (or multiple films) that when they are playing on television, you cannot avoid watching them, or a film so great and resonant that you rewatch it often? For me personally, it is not really a singular film that achieves this, but rather a singular director…
Pacific Heights (1990)
I love a good thriller, and nothing is more entertaining than a fantastically trashy psychological thriller. One of the most delightfully campy thrillers I’ve seen recently is Pacific Heights, which is a bizarre film, because despite having one of the most brilliant filmmakers at the helm, and a very talented cast, it is a purely…
Ranking the 88th Academy Award Nominees: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
This year is very concerning for the Supporting categories. The Supporting Actor category is a barren wasteland, and I really don’t care who wins there. However, the Supporting Actress category is also a very strange one because the five nominees are all very good, and are all truly very worthy of winning the Academy Award…
The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
I am not quite sure where I find the time and motivation to watch such bizarre and strange films, but it is certainly a wonderful feeling to watch something weird. Miloš Forman, in my humble opinion, has directed two of the greatest films ever made – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, but…
Macbeth (2015)
There is not any shortage of adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s plays have the distinction of having been adapted onto film from the earliest days of the silent era to the current modern cinematic age. There are far too many of these adaptations to name here, and spanning between the Western…
The Postmodern Pelican 