The Goods: Film Reviews
Julia Hart spent years as a high school English teacher before she was ever a filmmaker, and Miss Stevens, her 2016 directorial debut featuring a script she co-wrote, has a lived-in specificity and angst that could only come from someone who had experienced some version of the story first-hand.
When I saw The Dark Knight in 2008, I stepped into the Airbus IMAX theater in Chantilly, Virginia
Influencer, Kurtis David Harder’s 2022 sleeper, pulled off something trickier than it looks
Brian and Dan kick off a new theme month: “Train Month”…
Dan and Brian welcome back Gavin McDowell to pick up their discussion of one of Gavin and Brian’s childhood obsessions
Dan and Brian continue their exploration of misuse of corpses by watching and discussing the proto-Substance satire by Robert Zemeckis
It is uncommon to find a thriller from the 2020s that feels connected to the fundamentals of the genre as established by greats like Alfred Hitchcock
These days I am a practicing Unitarian Universalist, but I grew up Catholic, and on one retreat we learned a breathing mantra
Robert Zemeckis has built a career as a premier techno-artist, almost always finding some groundbreaking visual effect to center his films around.
The Minions sub-franchise of Illumination’s flagship Despicable Me series is basically the Oops! All Berries of cinema.