Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Op-eds

What To Watch At Cannes This Year

The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival is back and that means a close eye on what big films are coming out and what winners will emerge for Oscar contention. Now, I am...

The French Comic Calamity: Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards, And A Pink Panther

When I was a child, I watched reruns of The Pink Panther cartoons that ran from 1969 to 1980. No dialogue, just the titular character doing various hijinks like a silent movie,...

Op-Ed: Britain’s Working Class: A Journey Through the Films of the 1960s

The working-class communities of Britain are etched into the very foundations of the countries that structure it. These people - these salt-of-the-earth individuals - have been on a journey through wreck and...

The King Of Wuxia: Hu’s Legacy Of Martial Arts On Film

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, The Matrix trilogy, and even the Kung Fu Panda series all stem from the genre known as wuxia, which translates to “martial heroes” in Chinese. It is...

Top 5 Movies About Faith & Religion

With Holy Week upon us and many people getting into the mindset of religion and spirituality, I thought it would be fun to dive into best films cinema has provided regarding humanity's...

Op-Ed: Art Imitating Life

In the past few years, it has felt almost predetermined that an actor cast as a major historical, political, or cultural figure in a biographical film will be in the running, or...

Training Day Revisited on 4K

Antoine Fuqua’s 2001 film Training Day takes place over the course of a single day, and for the first time, that fateful day in which Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) and Alonzo Harris...

Chasing The Gold: Let the Blockbuster Win

Streaming has killed television. Even before streaming, basic cable's revolution in scripted series killed television. Even before that, premium cable channels outstripped anything on the big four networks. Television, as it once...

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