Saturday, July 5, 2025

Op-eds

Miami Film Festival: Capsule Reviews of ‘Auction,’ ‘Close Your Eyes,’ and ‘Queen of Bones

At the 41st annual Miami Film Festival, Thelma starring June Squibb, the late Richard Roundtree, and Parker Posey kicked off the weeklong party. While it is not a major festival for the...

Op-Ed: ‘Locke’ 10 Years Later

Locke is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year. It's one of A24's most underrated movies and features a Tom Hardy that should have been in the Oscar conversation more in 2014. It's a...

Op-Ed: Masculinity and the Modern Mann

There's a thrill to being a kid and playing cops and robbers. It's black and white, good and bad, law and chaos. The game rarely has subtlety on the surface. Sure, many...

Paradise Threatened: The Making of Marcel Carne’s ‘The Children of Paradise’

In 1945, to celebrate the liberation of France and the victory of World War II, the first major film to make its debut was the most expensive French film made at the...

Was It Really Bad? My Brief Reviews On Razzie “Winners”

With the Oscars comes the Razzies, an outdated version of celebrating the worst films that year which has overridden its stay as a thing. What was a funny joke now just feels...

In Praise of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: The Sadomasochistic Rogue of House Harkonnen

Austin Butler is at his best when he’s playing freaks. Some actors approach their characters with neat, tactful planning, like a surgeon measuring the incision on the patient’s body after preparation for the...

Oscars Reactions: Inspiring Women, Underdogs, and International Blood

So the award season went and came by, like waves on a shore. And I found myself thinking; What a ride it has been! Why was this particular award season so special that the...

List: The Best Onscreen Smokers

Note: This is in no way an endorsement of smoking or tobacco use. This is for entertainment purposes only Full disclosure: I used to smoke. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of, but...

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