If you’ve ever been thrilled by the charms of a musical supergroup – i.e., Them Crooked Vultures, The Traveling Wilburys, or Crosby Stills Nash & Young (RIP David), the collision…
Cinematic familiarity breeds mild suspension of expectation, particularly on more astute or cerebral occasions. That’s perhaps the last thing I’d find myself saying about a frothy period drama, bordering on…
With the kind of career Gerard Butler had built for himself, going from romantic-leaning A-lister (The Ugly Truth) to cozy yet grizzled matinee icon (Copshop, Angel Has Fallen), one wonders…
There may still be a luminous corner in one’s mind that harkens back to moviegoing in the past. Or at least, home engagement with films beyond the mainstream, or even…
The first new film of a calendar year, the first thing audiences may catch in that figurative January truck stop will often bear the potential to set the tone for…
We’re all familiar with the emotional response tied to hearing a legendary song for the first time. A track with a catchy melody, hook, or rhythm that stays with an…
Could it be that 2022 will most likely go down as a year that revitalized the “cinema epic”, and brought it back to a classic era? We tend to see…
If I were to have been quizzed on where every major animation house would stack up at year’s end, my guesses would have all been proven so wrong. Particularly with…
Do we all remember where we were around December of 2009? It seemed like a simpler time: Glee and Modern Family were all the rage on TV, Seattle’s Seahawks were…
Writer/director Sam Mendes has always been a filmmaker that captures a momentary mood, and often leaves enough of an impression to last minutes, hours, or weeks. Though never longer than…