'Squid Game' has quickly become the world's most talked about series. But beyond the violence and over-the-top setting, its story is surprisingly grounded in universal themes and complex social issues.
Amidst all of the modern-day appreciation of the series, one thing has been largely forgotten: While 'The Sopranos' was on the air, there was always a significant backlash against the show.
'Moonlight' is probably best-known for that now infamous Best Picture debacle, but it deserves much better than that. More than anything else, it tells the type of story that movies that compete for, and win Oscars, very rarely tell.
'The Perfection' is a Vantablack tragicomedy, and the utilization of color accentuates its themes of sexism, mental illness, the impossible societal expectations of women, navigating lasting, compounding childhood trauma, and the film’s complete reworking of the tired battle-of-the-sexes trope.
If there’s any kind of magic that exists in the world, filmmaking is undoubtedly one of the first thing that comes to mind. And some of the industry's best have pulled off truly mind-blowing feats by shrinking things down.
10 years ago last week saw the release of 'The Artist', a throwback film released 80 years after the end of the silent era that dominated the awards season, but has now all but disappeared from the public conscious.
Subs or Dubs? It's the argument that been raging for years amongst online communities and fans of film/TV entertainment. Let's take a closer look at to why some prefer one or the other, and the surprising politics that motivate a lot of the discord.
Whether it's the just released 'Don't Look Up' or 2011's 'Contagion', the record viewing numbers reveal one thing: there's just something about the end of the world. What is it that keeps drawing us in to watch the world collapse?
Jordan Peele's debut film, 'Get Out', did something pretty radical, that arrived right on time: It made a movie about American racial prejudice in which the villains were not rednecks, Klansmen, or other traditional racist bad guys.
10 years ago Daniel Gelb delivered one of the truly great documentaries about food with 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', a compelling portrait of a master at work.
Jim Carrey exploded onto the scene of the mid-1990s as one of Hollywood's leading stars going on an impressive run of major hits, with his criminally underrated 'Liar Liar' coming right in the midst of it all.
Wilco's transition into "Heavy Metal Drummer" has to be one of my favorite moment's in pop music, and that moment also happens to be the basis of two of the greatest moments of 'I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.'
It's hard to think of another non-musical film in which the score is the best-known element, but 40 years on, 'Chariots of Fire' still holds up and is deserving of a reappraisal on its merits as an overall great film.
20 years ago this week, David Lynch released what many consider to be his magnum opus. 'Mulholland Dr.' embodies everything people love about that baffling Lynchian formula.
One day in mid-October, I saw two movies, both of them about female serial killers, and both directed by women. But they couldn't possibly have been more different.
'Hoosiers', released 35 years ago, is one of the most beloved sports movies of all time, but some of its tropes have been put to renewed scrutiny over the recent years. Does this classic still hold up?
For one magical moment in November of 2011, The Muppets were on top of the world again with a movie that understood exactly what the beloved franchise was all about.
30 years ago, Oliver Stone delivered 'JFK', one of the best edited movies in history, that on the one hand is almost wholly untrue while on the other hand hugely entertaining.
Are film critics living in a bubble? That's been the basis of a lot of discourse in recent weeks and months. But have they really become so far out-of-touch with the general public that it's become a problem?
Erotic thrillers are regarded as a unique subgenre of thriller films whose roots can be traced back as early as the ‘60s, peaking in the '90s, and coming back with a vengeance in the last decade.
We've now had numerous iterations of the Batman, but despite their success, has this iconic property captured the zeitgeist of younger filmgoers as say, Spider-Man?
We’re just three months into 2022, yet back-to-back-to-back hit shows about real-life con artists have captured the zeitgeist. What is it that we love about despicable people?
'X' has deep roots tied to the '70s when films like 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' encapsulated America’s ideological duality; a duality that's reared it's blood soaked head once again, making it a perfect time for the return of the slasher and its much deeper themes.
Austin Butler's 'Elvis' biopic has been getting all the attention but my favorite Elvis movie remains 'Bubba Ho-Tep', an absurdist horror-comedy where he's secretly lived past his "official" death and fights a mummy.