Animation saved Wes Anderson from self-parody. By the time he released his fifth feature, the exotic Indian travelogue The Darjeeling Limited […]
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By most reckonings, 2012 was the best year of Jennifer Lawrence’s career. She starred in The Hunger Games, a movie that […]
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Movies — our most precious natural resource. Each week the Friday Movie Pile seeks to explain and analyze the new releases, […]
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The old clock on the wall tells us it’s Friday. I guess it’s more of a calendar than a clock. Whatever […]
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Oh, hi. We didn’t see you come in. We were just going through the Friday Movie Pile, and — what’s that? […]
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Almost halfway through Annihilation, writer/director Alex Garland’s latest, strangest film, Tessa Thompson’s Josie Radek is pulled into marshy waters by an […]
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Artists naturally want to create unique work, but that may not be possible. As Jim Jarmusch said, “Nothing is original…. Select […]
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Welcome to the Friday Movie Pile, where we dump all the new movies into a pile on the floor and roll […]
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The first handful of family films released in 2018 reflect a turbulent genre full of oddities and extremities, whimsy and disturbance. […]
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Academy Award ballots are secret, of course, closely monitored by an accounting firm that hardly ever accidentally names the wrong movie […]
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Phantom Thread, has the director working in full Gothic romance mode. Set in post-war London and […]
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Where were you when the world stopped giving a damn about big-screen Young Adult (YA) franchise adventures? You most likely don’t […]
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