The Prestige (Nolan, 2006) — 10 Years Later
A lot of movies show people trapped in hell; this one shows them constructing it.
View ArticleThe Looking Glass (Hancock, 2015)
I hate to use the word "sweet" when describing a film. There's no way to make it not sound like a backhanded compliment.
View ArticleMy Best Picture Choice: Spotlight
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the Oscars this week. With the exception of the omission of Todd Haynes’s Carol (a film I wasn’t all that enthusiastic about),...
View ArticleBreathe (Laurent, 2015)
Friendships are often an incalculable mix of ecstasy and disillusionment.
View ArticleMy Best Picture Choice: Mad Max: Fury Road
The sheer spectacle of Fury Road is almost on the scale of grand opera; it's dominated and driven forward by form and design.
View ArticleMy Best Picture Choice: Room
By any standard, Room is a film full of meaning. But compared to the other contenders for Best Picture, including Spotlight, The Big Short and The Revenant, Room possesses a singularly ambitious vision.
View Article“Telling a Great Story”— An Interview with Disney’s Mark Henn
There is a certain stigma attached to adults watching animated films, as if they are doing something that is only for children. Henn works to change that misconception, “We create films that are...
View ArticleThe Devil Wears Prada (Frankel, 2006) — 10 Years Later
It’s morning in Manhattan and the legion of the city’s models rise. They dress in a beautiful catalog of lingerie, skirts and stilettos and open their cabinets full of luxury makeup and eyeliner. When...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth (Guggenheim, 2006) — 10 Years Later
A decade after the world's most famous documentary sent us running for the hills, Greenland hasn't broken in half, the World Trade Center Memorial site isn't underwater, and global warming hasn't...
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