As one of the earliest movements in film history, German Expressionism had an immediate and lasting impact on cinema. With films appearing primarily in the 1920s and early 1930s, German Expressionist film...
The award for Best Supporting Actor has been stacked full of worthy winners over the last few years, from Brad Pitt’s first acting Oscar to Christoph Waltz’s Tarantino double. It’s the perfect...
2021 is a tough thing to predict. Not just for the Academy Awards, but really everything. The world is in such a state of flux that anything could change, and so nailing...
Like every category at the Oscars, this year’s delayed awards season presents a challenge in predicting the contenders for Best Original Screenplay. Still, there are a few areas we can look to...
Hello and welcome back to Criterion Crunch Time! I’m surprised it took this long (4 movies total), but this week, we are watching our first French film. This month, one of the...
If you don't consider Robert Pattinson one of the most exciting, daring, and versatile actors working today, then you clearly only see him as a vampire. His string of diverse performances...
As a fifteen-year-old, I decided to read the novel The Razor’s Edge. It was published in 1944 and it was written by some guy called W. Somerset Maugham who looked awfully serious...
Last year, I did a piece on films that received a ton of notoriety with their lengthy production and overblown budgets which resulted in critical failure for most, but some received actual...