When I saw The Player (1992), I was responding to the hype as much as I was responding to the film itself. Everybody had touted it as the one big budget satire...
Most cinephiles will get a faraway look in their eyes when they reminisce about 1970's cinema and the way that "they don’t make them like they used to." We rant and rave...
Few studios in the world have earned more critical acclaim than Studio Ghibli. Founded by the legendary filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki, the Japanese animation studio developed a cult...
Just the other day, a friend and I had a discussion about what the last true classic Christmas film might be. While we get a number of films centered around the holiday...
Sex. Lust. Desire. These aren’t the usual words that you would associate with a nun. For decades now, the stereotypical characteristics have often gone hand and hand with rigid or structure, as...
Mild-mannered Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) opens doors, buys drinks for everyone, and invites one and all for a chat before introducing them to Harvey, a seven-foot invisible pooka rabbit that only...
The year was 1939. Hitler was in power, Britain just declared war with Germany, and the United States was playing jump rope with the possibility of going to war. So upon hearing...
Shortly after I watched The Candidate for the second time in a month, I watched the final presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Though the debate in the film is...
