If any genre of film is an acquired taste, it is the musical. Musicals have a lot of specific expectations that can rub the general audience the wrong way. If you are...
These last few months have cleared my schedule to go on a binge in watching movie after movie after movie after movie where I already have watched more than 400 movies right...
So, this month on Criterion Crunch Time, we have talked a lot about the trappings of genre and how great directors weave in and out of them. Well, we are not quite...
New year, new collection. As we start the new year, the state of current cinema hangs in the balance of the post-COVID world, while historic cinema stays the same. Accessible and physically...
As per usual in this column, this week the Criterion Channel has afforded yet another opportunity to catch up with a director who is highly thought of but we may have missed...
So, sometimes, when you pick a movie on the Criterion Channel basically at random, there is some risk involved. But risk isn’t bad. I’m not referencing the risk of a movie you...
Ok, we are back for another month of Criterion Crunch Time, so it is time to guide you through four movies that are sadly leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of...
We are at the end of a GUBU year: Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizzare, and Unprecedented. With the political and social upheaval all around us, the holidays are in full swing and now we...
