Jordan Peele is no stranger to tackling issues of race in America, most predominantly through comedy on the hit sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Now it seems that he will be taking it on from the angle of horror with the upcoming film Get Out, produced by Blumhouse and QC Entertainment, which Peele will write and […]
Every September, the Star-Spangled Banner flies over a small town in the French region of Normandy. Only a few miles from the beaches where the Allied troops landed on June 6th 1944, it is the time of the annual Deauville American Film Festival. Since 1975, the festival has been committed to celebrate US cinema of all shapes and sizes. […]
With his 2013 feature Blue Ruin, director Jeremy Saulnier gained international attention. The low-budget film demonstrated a deep understanding of genre conventions and asked interesting questions about the morality of vigilante justice: a revenge thriller for people who do not like revenge thrillers. Now he is back with Green Room – a bigger, bolder, bloodier movie than its predecessor. ‘Green’, a traditional […]
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is in the works and it sounds like it’s a glorified Avengers 3. Seriously. Everyone‘s in this thing. Which, to be fair, is appropriate for the subject matter. It’s a big turning point for the whole universe. It needs to be a big, sweeping movie. It’s important. That’s why I […]
Where to begin with Tangerine? There are so many aspects that make this a modern, fresh, smart, and hilarious pleasure. It may very well be the best film of all time that was entirely shot on an iPhone. It is a 21st century update of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, minus the anger and political […]
The Kray Twins were two of the most ruthless and notorious gangsters in British history. Brutal men who used violence and intimation across London, inexplicably hailed as heroes by some. They were celebrities in their day and people interested in true crime are still fascinated by them. The twins are getting a new cinematic telling […]
Given how much fun I had writing my last feature, I decided to give it another try with defending another comic book film that so many cast aside without stopping to really see if there’s anything to appreciate about it. The one we will be talking about is especially baffling, given the current “character focused” […]
