The Goods: Film Reviews

Growing up, I understood “hard sci-fi” as a genre with a double meaning

The Color Purple has been through so many layers of adaptation at this point that it’s practically a game of telephone.

For whatever reason, the 1980s remain an endless well of bizarre and inventive thrillers, the kind that surprise you when you find them playing on cable at 1 AM or on a muted bar TV.

Cabin in the Sky deserves to be remembered as more than a curiosity of representation, though that context inevitably shapes how you approach it.

There is a paradox at the heart of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s empire that Joel Schumacher’s 2004 Phantom of the Opera makes impossible to ignore