It’s nothing new to see a coming-of-age picture wherein a couple of bright-eyed teens have dreams that far outstretch the confines of their dull, suburban lives. But as we are reminded time and time again, through the right lens, tired…
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Review: A Great Expose If You Buy What Scotty’s Selling
As classic film fans will tell you, the new wave of Hollywood secrets coming out today are nothing if you know about studio era history. Certain stars troubles were well-known, if not open secrets in the Hollywood of the ’30s…
McQueen Movie Review: A Troubled Life Bathed in Beauty
British designer Alexander McQueen was an ordinary man who made extraordinary clothes. Or at least that’s the main takeway of Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary McQueen. The story of a small-town London bloke becoming one of the most iconic…
Generation Wealth Movie Review: Lauren Greenfield has Created a Culmination of Her Career Thus Far
Over the past couple of decades, photo-essayist Lauren Greenfield (kids + money, The Queen of Versailles) has sought out lives filled with glamor and extravagance, striving to capture how our perception of social standing through gluttonous excess is rapidly evolving,…
A World Without Rules: The Dark Knight 10 Years Later
Comic book movies were nothing new by the time that The Dark Knight came around in 2008. The subgenre had already established its place with the great successes of X-Men and Spider-Man, and the sequels to each found the full potential of their respective franchises.…
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Review: A Mediocre Work of Astounding Ableism
There comes a point during director Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot where main character John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) attends an AA meeting and brings up his disability. It’s a fact of his life that…
Shock and Awe Movie Review: An Easily Digestible Bore
Shock and Awe exists exclusively to exploit a market for journalism movies whittled down into easily digestible, unchallenging chunks, à la James Vanderbilt’s 2015 clunker Truth. This heavy-handed pat on the back for the only reporters who “got it right”…