Charlize Theron Immerses Herself in a Tale of Love and Death
#21: Monster (2003)
Director: Patty Jenkins
Charlize Theron won a Best Actress Oscar for her...
Documentary Goes Into The Belly Of LA's Early Punk Scene
Film #17: The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Director: Penelope Spheeris
From the fall o...
The New Paul Thomas Anderson Self-Proclaimed Short Film
DIRECTOR: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON/2016
Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead have very similar career traj...
When Marvels Tussle!
DIRECTOR: JOE AND ANTHONY RUSSO/2016
JIM TUDOR: God bless America. Captain America, that is. Following not just the murky drudgery of...
An Atmospheric Boy-Meets-Undead-Girl Tale
Film #16: Near Dark (1987)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
In 1987 a movie was released about a handsome young man wh...
Has Ethan Hawke Found His Ultimate Tortured Artist Role?
DIRECTOR: ROBERT BUDREAU/2016
Ethan Hawke has always been an actor who skirts around the musical la...
Projection Meets Amplification On A Grandiose Scale
Please note that the following piece is intended only as an informed overview. Rather than grasp for some...
The Shadows of War
“Army of Shadows is the book about the Resistance: the greatest and the most comprehensive about this tragic period in the history of mankin...
Movie Still Plays Well, On And Off The Field
Movie #7: A League of Their Own (1992)
Director: Penny Marshall
This falls into the “I can’t believe you haven...
A Stylish But Morally Ambiguous Romantic Comedy
Film #6: An Education (2009)
Director: Lone Scherfig
After I reviewed 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl ...
