We are trapped. In the year 2020, or when we assume that we would have 20/20 vision on things, we are forced to march through life blindfolded as COVID-19 dismantles and shreds...
Where and when we watch movies are crucial to how much we enjoy them. By rewatching a film, our opinion on it can drastically change. We can appreciate things we never saw...
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...
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...
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...
Upon his sudden death in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The world of art is poorer with the passing of Irving Thalberg. His high ideals, insight, and imagination went into the production...
Where and when we watch movies are crucial to how much we enjoy them. There are so many variables at play - watching alone rather than with friends, in the cinema versus...