Review: Animated Fable Orion and the Dark Gets the Charlie Kaufman Treatment
Whenever a writer you admire decides to tackle a story (in this case, an animated film) aimed at younger people, the fear is always that they will dumb things down […]
Review: Nic Cage as Nick Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Is Hero Worship in the Best Way
One of the best things about The French Dispatch, the latest quirky drama from filmmaker Wes Anderson, was the fact that Anderson decided to go, well, Full Anderson. The filmmaker […]
Review: Amy Poehler’s Moxie Makes Memorable Feminists, Revolutionaries of its Teenage Cast
Steering away from the drunken silliness she wrangled out of her last directing effort, Wine Country, Amy Poehler now moves into the more serious realm of high school with Moxie, […]
Review: ‘Deplorables’ As Target Practice in Once Delayed, Still Timely The Hunt
Quite often, when producer Jason Blum presents something controversially topical, we get The Purge franchise. But every once in a while, we also get Get Out. Blum may not have […]
Review: The Oath Is an Ideological Brawl, Part Dark Comedy, Part Thriller
I feel confident that when actor-turned-writer/director Ike Barinholtz began writing his directorial debut, The Oath, it felt like political satire wrapped in something like a science-fiction premise about a nation […]