If I’m being honest, I totally forgot Star Trek Beyond was coming out up to the weeks surrounding its release. Between the dour Star Trek Into Darkness, a movie I enjoyed a good deal while watching and enjoyed markedly less so the more I thought about it or applied the least bit of scrutiny to it, and stellar…
The scene where Troubled Male Writer John (Ethan Hawke) confesses his love for Maggie (Greta Gerwig) comes relatively early in Maggie’s Plan. John feels trapped in his marriage to icy, career-focused Georgette (Julianne Moore) and can’t see the ending of his first novel in sight. Maggie is the young, free-spirited woman who’s been reading his novel…
If you’ve heard anything at all about Swiss Army Man, there’s a chance you’ve already made up your mind about whether or not it’s going to be your thing. Since it’s debut at Sundance earlier this year (and the storied theater walk-outs that accompanied it), Swiss Army Man has been most commonly known by another, admittedly accurately…
Modern dating is hard. I mean, past dating was hard too, but it didn’t lend itself quite as well to high concept sci-fi as the age of finding romance on Tinder and OKCupid (do people still use that?). In The Lobster, which premiered at Cannes in 2015 and found it way to US theaters this…
Last weekend marked the unofficial start of summer, as people celebrated a muggy Memorial Day weekend by firing up the grill, spending time with friends, and heading to the shore. I celebrated by immediately getting a cold. Sapped of energy and the inclination to socialize, I did what any sensible film geek under-the-weather would do…
Typically, when a movie gets labeled as one of the “feel-good movies of the summer”, there’s a set of expectations that accompany such a distinction. Gentle, breezy humor, romance, and an ending that ends well for our protagonists are, more or less, the order of the day. Less typical of the “feel-good” movie is, say,…
It’s been a strange year for superhero movies. Deadpool connected with people in a big way. Batman and Superman didn’t. Thinkpieces about the end of the superhero movie genre woke up from their winter hibernation to make their annual rounds. In a year already hopping with superhero activity, Captain America: Civil War clears the waters. 13 films…
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