‘Don’t Look Up’ review: Adam McKay’s angry, exhaustive satire is a miss

On “Murder,” one of The Office‘s funniest episodes, the employees at Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton branch face catastrophe. The company’s economic situation is dire, and rumors of bankruptcy begin to float around the workspace. Of course, that could mean lost jobs, losses…

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as astronomers in ‘Don’t Look Up’ teaser

Watch the first teaser for ‘Don’t Look Up’ starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio.

5 Great Movies With Anachronistic Soundtracks

Anachronistic: belonging-to-a-period-other-than-in-which-it-exists. Anachronistic soundtrack: the sexiest kind of film score. Almost every movie uses its soundtrack to create emotion, feeling, tone, and texture. Historical films usually involve music the same way they do costumes: to help transport us to another…

Quentin Tarantino Comes Home in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

It’s been almost 30 years since Quentin Tarantino first hit the indie scene like a neutron bomb with his debut feature Reservoir Dogs (1992) and since then he’s made many names for himself. To some he’s a genius and enfant…

‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’ teaser is strangely sunshiny

“That was the best acting I’ve ever seen in my whole life.” Once upon a time in Hollywood, there were megastars and mayhem. Seriously, read the stories about the place in the late ‘60s. But in the first footage for…

Into the Past: Assessing Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby

After nearly ten years of production qualms, Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down is soon to be made available for streaming. With trademark flashy visuals and slightly overblown spectacle, Luhrmann tends to be a divisive director. I’m hit or miss with…

12 Most Memorable Movie Scenes of 2015

The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015), The Bear Attack Yes, every single word of praise you’ve read and/or heard is true. One can’t escape talking about The Revenant without mentioning its pièce de résistance: a bear mauling that seems to be…