1984’s Ghostbusters is a pretty damn good movie – prone to being over-praised by nostalgic fans, but pretty damn good – and it doesn’t seem like it’s all that difficult to understand why. But for whatever reason, it seems impossible to replicate it. Setting aside the question of the many sci-fi action-adventure comedies that clearly […]
A franchise whose heights are as low as the Witchcraft series tends to force a pretty severe recalibration of one’s scale for “good” and “bad”, so it speaks to nothing at all that is objectively true for me to call Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood a pretty substantial jump up in quality. Or at least […]
It can be to keep it in mind, especially with the memories of the grisly 2020 Oscar-baiting Trial of the Chicago 7 so fresh in memory, but there is in fact something Aaron Sorkin does very well. He’s great at writing a very particular kind of procedural narrative, in which egocentric, talented people involved in […]
Single All the Way might be Netflix’s first gay Christmas rom-com, but let’s not bother to be impressed by anyone’s first gay anything. The LGBTQ community has been so systematically ignored by the entertainment industry for so long that you’ll stumble across a “first” if you put in even a modicum of effort. The only […]
I probably shouldn’t have come out of Netflix’s A Castle for Christmas with the strongest emotion in my soul being resentment for Shakespeare in Love, but the heart despises what it despises. It’s not like Shakespeare in Love is even a bad movie, I just feel it’s responsible for films about authors coming up with […]
There are many indelible moments sprinkled across the 128 minutes of The Power of the Dog, writer-director Jane Campion’s first feature film in the twelve long years since 2009’s Bright Star (which was itself her first film in the six long years since 2003’s In the Cut, so if I am doing the math right, […]
There’s no reason other than arbitrary numerology to compare the 2010 animated feature Tangled with the 2021 animated feature Encanto: the first is Official Disney Animated Feature #50 (a number arrived at with some corporate fudging, since it includes 2000’s Dinosaur, which really shouldn’t count; on the other hand, 1943’s Victory Through Air Power really […]
