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Many fans see 2006’s Cars as the moment where Pixar lost the plot. People treat it as a dethroning, but I disagree. At most, Cars was a chink in Pixar’s armor. For me, the moment where Pixar lost all credibility as a studio was not the release of Cars, but the release of Cars 2. It was choosing Cars as the first non-Toy Story…
The third installment in Roman Polanski's accidental thematic Apartment Trilogy, its easy to want to compare The Tenant to its relatively straight psychological horror predecessors Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Indeed, it grapples with similar themes of social isolation and the oppression of the individual by an antagonistic majority. However, any expectation of straightforward horror or thriller tropes will lead to disappointment and confusion, as The Tenant is quite its own beast.
The Tenant follows quiet and anxious Polish bureaucrat Trelkovsky…
This was a very painful watch for me, as someone who finds Mike Flanagan to be one of the best horror directors working in Hollywood right now. The Midnight Club is Flanagan's pet project, an adaptation of the young adult horror novels of Christopher Pike, and the creator's fourth series collaboration with Netflix. Quite a bit of vitriol has been directed Netflix's way for cancelling this, Flanagan's first planned multi-season series, after just one season, thus preventing Flanagan from seeing…
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is James Gunn's loving homage to The Star Wars Holiday Special. Or, more accurately, it's like if The Star Wars Holiday Special were actually good. It's got the forced celebrity cameos, the animated flashbacks, the cloying sentimentality, but all in service to an actual compelling narrative, further developing its lovable band of offbeat heroes and exploring their relationships in fresh new ways. Its slight, but so sweet, and a great…
My first exposure to Christian Bale came in the form of his Batman in the Dark Knight movies, where he plays a fairly vanilla leading man type. I had no idea how insanely talented he really is till I saw Mary Harron's pitch-black horror satire American Psycho for the first time as a teen.
This adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's notorious novel of the same name follows yuppy scum Patrick Bateman (Bale), who, not content to merely be a shallow,…
Joe Dante's Gremlins remains my absolute favorite holiday film. It is almost difficult to talk objectively about this film and what makes it great, because it is so deeply, nostalgically entwined with my childhood and my identity. This movie is pure comfort cinema for me. Watching it is like curling up under a safety blanket. This is one of those movies that, if I were to watch it for the first time today, I would say feels like it was…
