Once again, it has been a weird year. Not a pandemic year, but still oddly feeling the effects. It seemed like, week to week, I had no idea when or where movies would...

Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writers: Ryan Engle Stars: Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Sava Jeffries, Sharlto Copley Synopsis: A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving...

Well, we have come to it. This will be the final article in the long series: Criterion Crunch Time. And because of that, now I must attempt the impossible. I must find...

Popular culture is a funny thing. When something joins the cultural consciousness, one can never tell what impact it will have on the art in of itself. If a movie quotation, or...

The Criterion Channel has a certain reputation. With a few exceptions, most movies in their original collection can be described as classics (if you’re being a kind cinephile) or pretentious (if you...

Critiques of all types of narrative media are full of overused sayings and cliches. “There are seven kinds of stories.” “Style over substance.” “It was all a dream.” “All's well that ends...

Being a fan of movies is just truly strange. We bark all day about the best movies of the year, even to the point where we engage in absolutely pointless arguments on...

Times sure have changed. This is something I think of often, mainly because I spend way too much time on social media. The immediate reaction to “problematic” movies (or whatever piece of...