To the Warner Bros. TENET Marketing Department, Christopher Nolan wrote an Op-Ed in March about the social responsibility of supporting local theatres. A cinematic champion, the director received his fair share of criticism trying to promote moviegoing during the pandemic. I think most people detect that this is a director who makes movies and doesn’t…
Category: Film
You Should Have Left (2020)
I have previously written only two reviews of films as they were released on video: Dumbo and Fifty Shades of Grey. This is inline with those. A family moves into a house and weird things start to happen. Accomplished films with this premise in recent memory; Insidious, Paranormal Activity, and Sinister have all been produced…
Counterpoint: “Kingdom of Heaven” Director’s Cut Is Not the ‘Holy Holy’ Film Nerds Think
A beautiful but imperfect film that is good not great. It seems these days with film criticism, that every movie either has to be great or terrible. In the fifteen years since Kingdom of Heaven was released, film criticism has grown its own sub-economy. A Collider article recently shared to Reddit went viral about Kingdom…
Revenge of the Sixth: A Defense of the Battle of the Heroes
Preamble: Any skillfully made film with enough craft and popularity can be interpreted in a variety of ways, so it stands the highest grossing film of 2005, which is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary today gets its ride. We’re talking identity politics, social and political commentary, unwanted scientific takes, needless and thin arguable subtext, and general…
Why Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is My favourite
I often joke to people that Revenge of the Sith is the best Star War, because it has the most stars and contains the most wars. Episode III is the one film I liked as a child that I’ve kept my nostalgia goggles on for, evolving and informing my own taste as I grow up….
‘Extraction’ is here for Netflix to Extract you from the real world for 116 Minutes
Newton Thomas Sigel is in my opinion a very talented cinematographer. He lent a unique look and creative eye to the otherwise by the numbers Bohemian Rhapsody, and staged some memorable images like the crane down newspaper shot in Superman Returns or Jean Grey parting the waters in X2: X-Men United. Yet he is not…
First Rate Script, Career Best Hugh Jackman Highlight Corey Finley’s ‘Bad Education’
‘Bad Education’ Review by William Hume Hugh Jackman is a good actor, but just how great is he? I often wonder as I marked his previous Best Performance in Prisoners seven years ago. That performance was all unbridled rage but this here is the complete opposite; subtle and internal. Hugh plays a man of many…
International Women’s Day Spotlight: Director Karyn Kusama
Director of ‘The Invitation’ and ‘Destroyer’
Review: ‘The Invisible Man’ finds strength in Men telling stories about Women
Timely subtext + textbook filmmaking techniques + modern technology = an effective thriller.
Actors With Great Taste in Material: Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss has always had good taste in material. Anyone who participated in Mad Men gets an automatic pass and benefit of the doubt when it comes to material, but Moss followed that landmark television series up with another one by a completely different set of cast & creators on a different network with the…
Birds of Prey is a Success!
An All-female Written & Directed R-Rated Superhero Spin-off was #1 at the Box-Office! What a time to be alive! Production Budget: $82 Million 11-Day Gross: $145 Million+ By all accounts, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a success. Despite some missteps in Warner Bros. marketing campaign, an unexpected mid-week…
2020 Oscar Nominations & Narratives
2020 Oscar Small Talk Conversation Pieces
