Star-making turns from Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim help make Paul Thomas Anderson’s "Licorice Pizza" possibly one of the director’s best films.
Having not seen Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’ critically lauded 2009 film Dogtooth, I legitimately had no expectations going into his latest film. Upon leaving the theater I was glad I knew nothing, because it only enhanced the strange and hypnotic, fever-dream-like viewing experience that was The Lobster. The film is set not so far in the future, where everyone without a partner is forc...[Read More]
Hello again, dear readers. After a longer-than-anticipated absence, I’m back, and I hope all of you have seen Godzilla by now. We’re truly in the summer movie season as this point, with big movies like X-Men: Days of Future Past and Maleficent coming out week after week, and last Friday saw the release of the Tom Cruise-starring sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow. In the meantime, this o...[Read More]
It’s the last week of February, dear readers, and that means that, hopefully, spring will finally be on its way before long. And that also means we’re almost out of the cinematic dumping ground that is the beginning of the year, so people who want to see something good at the theater will have other options than merely seeing The Lego Movie again. But in the meantime, trailers are cont...[Read More]