Viggo Mortensen has starred in many avant-garde dramas about troubled middle-aged men, but Falling is the veteran actor’s first time directing and writing is own film, as well as starring in…
Summertime Review: Teenage poets slam an admirable, but clumsy new story about LA life | Sundance 2020
Summertime is, fittingly, a movie about time itself and its “little surprises.” We waste time wasting away on social media, while unbeknownst to us, we’re side characters in another time waster’s…
Weathering With You Movie Review: Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered another stunner
Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered greater films than his latest, the climate change aware Weathering With You. His films such as 5 Centimeters Per Second and the 2016 megahit Your Name offered gre…
TYF’s 20 Best Films of 2019
Oh, what a year it was. 2019 has come and gone as we’ve already hit you with our best of the decade list and recently our best documentaries of the decade list, it’s time for our annual co…
Midway Movie Review: Roland Emmerich’s war epic is respectful, but flimsy
Roland Emmerich just can’t let go of the past. At first, it was the fact that he loved B-movie corniness so much that he kept blowing it up to massive scales. He got it right one time with Independenc…
The King Movie Review: Script falls short while Chalamet shines
Timothée Chalamet was born to be a lead actor. Simply put, the film suffers when he is not on screen and thankfully there are very few instances when he isn’t.…
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a Towering, Tiring Meditation on Fatherhood, Love, and Grief
At a Q&A following a revival of Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995) earlier this year in New York City, screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi explained that he saw Scorsese’s upcoming film The Irishman as the…