LAST NIGHT IN SOHO dir. Edgar Wright, starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, and Terrance Stamp Ellie Turner, a young, socially awkward country woman with a penchant for designing throwback fashion, makes her way to Soho to pursue her career. While there, she rents...
THE LAST DUEL dir. Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer The Last Duel, the retelling of the 1386 accusation from Marguerite de Carrouges that she was raped by Jacques Le Gris, is one of the most captivating and harrowing stories to...
ETERNALS dir. Chloe Zhao, starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, et al Due to the events of Avengers: Endgame, the snap that brought about the return of half the universe's population kick starts the emergence: the awakening of a new Celestial, the gods of...
dir. Wes Anderson, starring Ralph Finnes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, et. al The Grand Budapest Hotel At first glance, there is a lot to be said about Wes Anderson’s 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel solely from a technical angle. Whether it is...
DUNE dir. Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, et al Dune, the story of fate, of destiny, of the biggest treasure in the universe and the never-ending struggle to defend it, is one of the most highly regarded books in...
THE LIFE AQUATIC W/STEVE ZISSOU dir. Wes Anderson, starring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Houston, Willem DaFoe, et. al The year is 2004 and Wes Anderson is about to unveil his fourth feature film. The financial success of The Royal Tenenbaums – his highest grossing feature until...
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS dir. Wes Anderson, starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, et. al The Royal Tenenbaums became my favorite movie before I even saw it. Between its perfect mini movie poster that I clipped from the pages of Entertainment Weekly and taped to...
The Nerds Shall Inherit the Earth: Wes Anderson's Coming of Age 'Rushmore' The impact of Wes Anderson's sophomore feature film on the coming-of-age genre cannot be overstated enough. One needs only to look at the genre before Rushmore came out in 1998, though, to see how...
THE BLAZING WORLD dir. Carlson Young, starring Carlson Young, Udo Kier, Dermot Mulroney The Blazing World, the fantasy thriller from writer/director Carlson Young, opens on the unfortunate drowning of a young girl while her parents and twin sister are distracted. Years later, Margaret, the surviving twin sister,...
NO TIME TO DIE dir. Cary Joji Fukanaga, starring Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Ralph Finnes, et al BOND IS BACK. James Bond, the suave secret agent with a license to kill, has been a mostly consistent staple in the action franchise dating back to 1962's...
