A really strong start (rewatching an even more heightened and dramatized adaptation of original’s cold open is a great move, as is the movie-within-a-movie recasting of Luke Wilson for Billy), but it ...

Extremely Canadian and even more extremely Gen-X, but also incredibly sweet, super thematically dense - it makes so much of the puberty-sisterhood-teenage girl experience metaphor directly text for th...

Tonally insane - hard not to call it a horror-comedy, but it's a comedy in the way that Alex Cox's Walker is a comedy. A wry, satirical humor paired with a bouncy folk-electronic soundtrack that is le...

As a certified PWSA RE lover, I feel like I don't have the right to ask why this looks the way it does, but I gotta ask. Why does it look like that? Why set this in Massachusetts (lmao) if you're goin...

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Incredible bit of pulp. Contemporaneous with Star Wars and wearing that inspiration very clearly on its sleeve, but iterates on that concept in really cool ways. There’s this throughline in genre stor...

There's a lot to love about the gender politics here - about the way men are dangerous, clueless and self-referential at best, unable or unwilling to understand the world they've made through a woman'...

1981 is really early in the decade for something so dialed in to that decade's entire vibe. It's hard to miss just how influential this was for the development of the 80s action hero, the digital urba...

Loved all the interlocking vignettes as we counted down the clock to the Violent Saturday in question. Every person a universe unto themselves. Crime as not only a breach of a social order, but an act...

A really ambitious project, and one that manages to adapt the Odyssey surprisingly well as film. One of Nolan's great strengths as a screenwriter is his ability to layer non-linear narratives in a rea...

Surprisingly non-exploitative for a blaxploitation film. At times deeply sad, earnest, hopeful and perfectly juxtaposed with its loud, boisterous and over-the-top moments. Super stylish, very funny - ...

A lot of really great parts (the core possession mechanic; some much more inspired cinematography in places than its predecessors; the wuxia ninja fight; the Control-esque vibe of the DODC), but ultim...

Incredibly funny. Everyone's said it before, but it's really cool how well this stands on its own without even needing a greater grounding in the slasher corpus to really get how subversive it is. The...

While so much of the Bond formula feels like it's been dialed in from the start, I think this is the one where it really does start to come together. The entry's theme weaving into the Bond theme thro...

It's easy to see how this formula really ended up taking off. Action, glamor, exotic locales, beautiful (and disposable) women and deferential (and disposable) indigenous allies. It's all very much an...

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Achingly romantic, super stylish. It's a fairly simple premise, but Tam, et al. really play it for all it's worth. Our three leads in particular have such great yearning faces that draw out just how o...

Frustratingly opaque, but shot through with occasional flashes of brilliance that make the whole thing so much more disappointing. Deeply hamstrung by its stylistic conceits - the vérité style handhel...

A bit of a slow start, but it really comes together in the second half - a ton of surprisingly tense sequences as Alice is stalked by the Cat Person and a really innovative dream sequence integrating ...

The most instructive moment in the film is when, on the Thriller set, Michael tells John Landis to keep a wide enough frame to catch his entire body in the shot - you can't feel the dance without seei...

A lot to love here, but it ultimately doesn't quite gel. There's just a few too many moving parts, and while most of them come together, a handful of threads get left hanging (the Carter subplot doesn...

Incredible density of background gags, whip-smart comedic timing, super tight script. A really high-wire mix of an unstated vulnerability and tastefully didactic visual metaphor (Charli on a screen in...

The early vibes are immaculate, the fits are out of this world, the James Brown soundtrack goes incredibly hard, but despite being so stylish and confident, the film fails to gel in a meaningful way. ...

What is he, the new Noriega? He helps you kill communists so you let him sell drugs to [blacks] and [Hispanics]? You even bring it up for him. Happy 4th One thing that sticks out on this revisit is ju...