Best Supporting Performances of 2021
Thanks to the valiant efforts of talented character actors, supporting roles are often far more memorable than any given film’s supposed...
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Thanks to the valiant efforts of talented character actors, supporting roles are often far more memorable than any given film’s supposed...
Be a foreigner with very few friends in town. Stumble across a violent crime in progress. Immediately touch everything as you fruitlessly...
[The following observations were originally posted to my Twitter account on August 22, 2020. However, as the character limit is no longer...
Thanks to COVID-19, this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival is exclusively online! I was looking forward to exploring the...
Tonight, I revisited Rugrats in Paris: The Movie for the first time in… oh, probably decades. Here are a few random, disconnected...
Synopsis: After Mongol invaders wipe out his entire clan, samurai Jin Sakai is forced to confront the fact that his rigid “code of honor”...
[The following essay contains SPOILERS; you have been warned!] Both fans and critics of Netflix’s recent adaptation of Andrzej...
I’m an unapologetic fan of The Phantom Menace (though I must confess that I used to be a bit embarrassed to admit it). In the past, I...
Now that the dust from the holiday season has settled, I’d like to give the old year a proper sendoff. Rather than compiling a generic...
The taciturn remnant of a near-extinct tribe of warriors that prefers to work alone, but nevertheless inadvertently assembles a makeshift...
[SPOILERS BELOW! You have been warned.] I know it’s faithful to the source material, but Muschietti really shouldn’t have brought back...
[Yes, I did endure this cinematic atrocity so that you wouldn’t have to. You’re welcome.] Furry. Obviously. Vore. Perpetrated during...
I saw Captain Marvel last Saturday, but it’s taken me a few days to completely digest the experience. After much deliberation, I’ve...
The glorious cinematic saga that is Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil is a definite guilty pleasure, but I currently lack the energy to...
I won’t be writing one of my usual reviews for Avengers: Infinity War. I have two big reasons for this: I am incredibly biased when it...
Last night, Jean Dujardin took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work as George Valentin in The Artist—an almost entirely silent role....
A story’s success depends powerfully upon how the writer chooses to tell it. Good writers understand and respect the beauty of minimalism...
When I first learned that a significant number of Shakespeare scholars consider Iago–slimy, scheming, irredeemably evil Iago–the...
4. Suganoichi, Blind Menace: Unlike Zatoichi, Shintaro Katsu’s more famous blind masseur, Suganoichi is rotten to the core. As a boy, he...
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder if Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark...