Photosensitivity Warning: The primary event occurs during a thunder storm and the end credits feature sporadic white light flashes, each of which may be triggering for photosensitive individuals. “Love songs fill the night But they don’t tell it all Not… Read More ›
Anne Hathaway
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” recontextualizes the heroic epic poem into a melancholic exploration of regret and consequence.
Review Warning: The following review will do its best to refrain from specific details as it relates to the filmmaker’s intention, but the source material is so woven into modern storytelling in a variety of ways that not discussing the… Read More ›
Characters are in this year via David Frankel’s “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and you can bring them home.
Photosensitivity Warning: As much of the film deals with fashion, there are press in attendance at various points of the film which results in quite a few flashing cameras. Scenes like these are also used in the supplemental materials of… Read More ›
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway shine in the gorgeous-but-forgettable “Mothers’ Instinct,” now home on Blu-ray.
Benoît Delhomme’s directorial debut Mothers’ Instinct (2024), a remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s French-language thriller of the same name (2018), feels like it was born out of a cinephile’s (or actor-phile’s) dreamboard. Oscar-winners Jessica Chastain (It: Chapter Two) and Anne Hathaway… Read More ›
The home release of “Eileen” is skin and bones, unlike its lead performances.
Certain films slipped through the cracks in the heat of the 2023 awards season. Everything released at that time was not going for the gold. Those smaller films attempt to achieve other successes. Outside of the awards season rush, some… Read More ›
James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” is technically impressive yet emotional cold. [Film Fest 919]
In 2019, James Gray, a filmmaker I always had generally liked, unleashed Ad Astra into my orbit, and that film hit me like a ton of bricks. Taking home the gold as my #1 film of 2019, it’s perhaps my… Read More ›
Recommendation: When we control our monsters, we become ‘Colossal’.
With so many large releases coming to theaters every month, it’s hard for smaller films to break through and get your attention. One of these smaller films is out now for home release – the dark comedy Colossal, featuring the… Read More ›
15 Things That Shouldn’t Bother You About ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ [/Film Rebuttal]
Yesterday, /Film released an article from their staff titled 15 Things That Bothered Us About ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. Normally, I wouldn’t care, but I felt like their issues weren’t as problematic as they believed. If you consider the Nolan… Read More ›