After working on the script for roughly 20 years, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love; Boogie Nights) finally cracked his vision to adapt author Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland and, if one’s been following the awards circuit, the resultant film,… Read More ›
Too often these days it seems like we’re living on the dumbest timeline. Regardless of one’s politics, when hypocrisy is high, there is no other way to process it than believing our lawns crave Gatorade for the electrolytes. The government… Read More ›
Biblical epics are harder to find in cinemas nowadays. Classics like Ben-Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956) are theatrical landmarks. Hollywood has avoided these kinds of stories in recent years, until now. The Book of Clarence tells a different… Read More ›
When it came to film releases in 2020, the modus operandi was “make it work.” Sometimes that meant stalling until a theatrical release was possible and sometimes that meant selling to a streamer. In the case of Eddie Murphy’s Coming… Read More ›
To paraphrase a line from director Craig Brewer’s (Dolemite Is My Name) Coming 2 America, Hollywood is nothing but superhero films, remakes, and sequels no one asked for. Without getting into the numerous ways that’s an oversimplification that ignores the… Read More ›