Yes, coming up with a final Best of 2018 list after more than half of 2019 has passed is late by any objective standard. In my defense, I fully intended to come out with this list about two months ago. But as some of you might know, my family was thrust into an unexpected move …
Continue reading Best Movies of 2018 (Final, and extremely timely, version)
At Eternity's Gate; Beautiful Boy; Bohemian Rhapsody; Boy Erased; Burning; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; Cold War; Destroyer; Foxtrot; Free Solo; Green Book; The Hate U Give; The Guardians; Lizzie; Love After Love; Love, Simon; Mary, Queen of Scots; Minding the Gap; On The Basis of Sex; Peterloo; Shoplifters; Sweet Country; They Shall Not Grow Old; Vox Lux; Wildlife; …
Niceness is not something that is generally held up as an upper-tier virtue in society. Instead we just got through another nasty election season consisting of battle-lines drawn, weapons hurled, and an election night that resulted in a "choose-your-own-story" victory narrative in which the only real consensus reached was that we are an increasingly divided …
And here we are finally, with the first edition of the Best of 2018. Readers will do well to remember three things before we dive into the list: Like in 2017, there will be three editions of this list. The first here, is to be treated like a half-time report at a game – there's …
The movie sequel has had a bad rap ever since its inception, and often for good reason. At its worst, the sequel perfectly epitomizes just about everything that is wrong about Hollywood: a cheap money-grab sanctioned by studio executives to satisfy stockholders rather than borne out of any creative and artistic inclinations. They often exploit …
The title of this post explains itself right? Let's dive in: PADDINGTON 2 (dir. Paul King) "If you're kind and polite, the world will turn out right." This is the motto that Paddington Brown lives by (taught to him by his Aunt Lucy of course) and it is also the ethos that drives this entire …
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