Jul 29, 2020

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a great example of a story that works on paper (as a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley, specifically) but could never work on the big screen. Not unless Edgar Wright directed it, that is. But since it flopped at the box office ten years ago, has this meta mash-up leveled up in the past...

Jul 23, 2020

Alejandro Iñárritu won back-to-back Best Director Oscars for his 2014 and 2015 films Birdman and The Revenant. While both films were technically complex, both were box office hits, and both films won Oscars for their lead actors and for cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, only Birdman won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Jul 15, 2020

Twenty years ago this week, Marvel Comics’ mutant heroes hit the big screen in the first blockbuster comic book movie of the modern era. X-Men set the tone for twenty years of comic book movies and gave Kevin Feige his first job producing a Marvel film. Two decades and twelve movies later, we look back at the first...

Jul 8, 2020

The ninth film by Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is a meditation on the Hollywood machine. It’s also a very un-Tarantino-esque film - you’ll notice that we just used the word “meditation” to describe it.

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