We may not agree on our best films of the year, but we can agree on one thing: 2016 has not been easy. Setting aside the most volatile election season in recent history, we’ve seen the passing away of an extraordinary number of cultural figures we … [Continue reading]
Thanks to Marvel, we moviegoers have become conditioned to expect something after the movie credits begin rolling. We expect a short teaser scene, an outtake, a lead-in to the next in the series, SOMETHING. But Moana does something completely … [Continue reading]
There is one key takeaway from this movie: it's not enough to have a bunch of food items swear the whole movie if they're not actually saying anything funny. FOOD + SWEARING = COMEDY GOLD ^^^^The above equation only works for about 3-5 minutes, … [Continue reading]
Back in 2005, John Carney's Once burned a filmic trail based almost purely on word of mouth. I sang its praises. I told everyone I knew to see it, whether or not I thought they'd actually like it because I knew they would have a friend who could use … [Continue reading]
This is an old post from July. Let's pretend it's still July 2016: I saw The Secret Life of Pets a couple weeks ago, and as the film hurtled towards it's big action climax, the details felt more and more familiar. Where had I seen this before? The … [Continue reading]