Reviews
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A Legendary Writer and Director’s Recipe for Creating Modern Cinematic Classics The detailed story of the fabled Trojan Horse is not actually found in Homer’s The Odyssey; it appears at length in Book II of Virgil’s Aeneid. In the 2026 film The Odyssey, two-time Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan boldly blends these myths. As director,…
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Cinema’s New Age of “Smart Horror” Cinema is undergoing a renaissance of intelligence, as sci-fi, horror, and thrillers are no longer mere vehicles for cheap scares or spectacle. Instead, films like Ex Machina and Get Out use these genres to probe the depths of human psychology and society. Before those touchstones, Fede Álvarez’s 2013 reboot…
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There’s something about Spielberg movies, right? For over 50 years, Steven Spielberg has directed almost 40 feature-length films. Giant great white sharks terrorize beachgoers. A mild-mannered archeology professor doubles as a globe-trotting adventurer. A German industrialist saves the lives of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Three of Spielberg’s films adapt well-written, cinematic books by my…
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The Wayans Legacy: Masters of Parody The Wayans brothers—Keenen Ivory, Damon, Shawn, and Marlon—are staples in American comedy. Keenen Ivory Wayans is the trailblazer who wrote and directed I’m Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988. He followed up with the hit sketch comedy series In Living Color in 1990. Siblings Shawn and Marlon continued the…
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Questlove’s 25th Tribeca Film Festival opener, “Earth, Wind & Fire” has high Emmy and Oscar winning odds. Read the full review here!
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It’s no secret: Gen Z is fascinated by the Y2K aesthetic that defined millennial youth. As a millennial who lived through it, I remember an era that was uncurated, weird, and deeply imperfect. The looming threat of the “Millennium Bug” shaped everything. Fear of a computer glitch upending the world at midnight in 2000 was…
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A man discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price. Obsession (2026) is one of the most unsettling thrillers in modern horror!
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Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, a 22-year-old native New Yorker, moved to the Midwest. Moving from Staten Island to Steubenville, Ohio, can be a major cultural shock. If you watch the movie 8 Mile closely, you’ll see that there are these sorts of frightening norms, a rigid Rust Belt blue-collar born social system at play that doesn’t…
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Hollywood musical biopics rarely capture the full complexity of their subjects. The truth is, these films aren’t demanded for the hope of an accurate depiction. They exist to satisfy the public’s appetite for a critical autopsy of an artist’s rise and fall. Their sometimes interpretive—and if need be, unauthorized—exposé. If we were to dissect an…
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Darryl Potter’s definitive Project Hail Mary film review breaks down the stunning visual effects, Ryan Gosling’s performance and more.