The Best of a Bleak Year
Confession time: I dragged my feet writing my Best Of list this year. The reasons are threefold:
This is one of my favorite ...
Prep for Awards Shows, a Collector's Show, and Oscar Micheaux
A peek behind the curtain: I'm wrapping up the piece the night before I head out on a cross-co...
Star of TV Comedy and Major Director, Dead at 75.
I confess, I’m still getting to know Penny Marshall.
In my defense, I missed her during her career’...
Mary Poppins Returns With a Marvelous, Mystical, Classical Musical
DIRECTED BY ROB MARSHALL/2018
I suspect many others will call Mary Poppins Returns “practi...
You've Already Read This Review Because You've Already Seen Mortal Engines
DIRECTED BY CHRISTIAN RIVERS/2018
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It's a Jarmusch-y World; We're Just Living in it.
When someone asks me who some of my favorite directors are, I forget to include Jim Jarmusch. What, I ask, i...
An Amazing Collection of Colossally Movie-Loving Shows
Oh, hey! *Taps microphone* Is this thing still on?
Please pardon the interruption of your regularly s...
J.K. Rowling's Sequel is Rich in Magic—Not So Much in Character Development
DIRECTED BY: DAVID YATES/2018
The Wizarding World is in crisis—again. What w...
Halloween's own Prince of Darkness
Of course we all know John Carpenter. Starting with Halloween, his movies have never just been The Fog, or Christine, or In ...
Catching up With the Dancing Director's Musical and Not-so-Musical Major Career
Photo by: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
When you talk about St...
Taylor Blake is a life-long film aficionado. Ever since she saw The Lion King in theatres at age 2, she was hooked—initially on every Simba and Nala stuffed animal she could find, later on any great movie she could find. She graduated in 2014 with a B.A. in Journalism from Taylor University, where she also dabbled in film courses. One of her college highlights was attending the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
