Short Term 12. This is Grace. — Grace (answering the phone at the Short Term 12 group home) You probably didn’t hear about Short Term 12. Which is too bad, because this is one of the best films to have come out last year – if I’d gotten to see it in theaters, it would’ve […]
Her affirms that no matter how advanced our technology gets, we will remain minds and bodies. And that is okay. It might even been good.
Two major, award-winning directors dropped major films this month. Both films are generating a huge amount of Oscar-buzz. Both films are proving quite divisive. Both films are based on true stories. Despite their obvious differences – especially stylistically, both films are linked thematically. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and David O. Russell’s American […]
American Hustle is a beautiful film packed with must-see performances. It’s also a depressing picture of power we’d do well to take as a prophetic warning.
I count down my favorite films of 2013. What did I leave off? What did I overrate? What do I still need to see? Sound off in the comments!
Nebraska reminds us that we are fundamentally relational beings. The film’s awkward plot works because of the outstanding acting.
Gal Gadot is a great choice for Wonder Woman. The criticisms leveled at her are silly at best and sexist at worst.
12 Years a Slave is a beautiful, well-made film. But the lack of redemptive threads fails to justify the violence it depicts.
Your universe was never meant to be. — Malekith THOR: The Dark World expands Marvel’s cinematic universe, refining the cosmic scope we first glimpsed in Thor and revisited in The Avengers. We see more of the 9 Realms, meet the Collector and discover that the tesseract is one of the Infinity Stones. We also learn […]
Catching Fire has already shattered November box office records. The sequel to 2011’s The Hunger Games is not only a better book adaptation, it improves in every way over its predecessor. The actors seem more settled in their roles (or perhaps their roles are better written, or both). Despite a richer, more complex source material, […]