Our modern era of moviemaking is unsettling in that it is no longer defined by acting talent (as it was during the Golden Age of Hollywood) or directorial and auteurial interests. Instead it is increasingly driven by mega-corporations who seek to build consumer brand-loyalty by creating and curating intellectual properties that can go on in …
You may be wondering (probably derisively) why in the world I put out a list of the best movies of 2017 four months into 2018, a full month after the Academy Awards are done, and when the world has generally moved on to other seemingly more important things? The most obvious reason is that due …
Call Me By Your Name; Phantom Thread; A Fantastic Woman; Wonderstruck; The Shape of Water; The Post; The Florida Project; Faces/Places; The Disaster Artist; I, Tonya; Downsizing; Thelma; Professor Marston and the Wonder Women; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Darkest Hour; All The Money In The World; Molly's Game; Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool; …
Now I know what you may be thinking. Isn't it just a little bit late to be putting out a list like this? Well yes, most of these lists do come out in July or August but I just can't bring myself to put together a list then for a few reasons. First, I'm a …
(Note: Given all the talk of format with this film, I should note that I could not actually get to a 70mm IMAX screening as the closest one was 45 minutes away. But I did manage to get into a regular IMAX screening. So take from that what you will.) In an age of pre-existing …
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