Advertisements Ride due west as the sun sets; turn left at the Rocky Mountains . . . With this simple advice, Jeremiah Johnson sets forth on a brutal course toward life anew. Robert Redford is the titular hero recently returned from the…
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Advertisements Edgar Wright is one of my favorite directors. I adore his films for their mastery of both verbal and non-verbal humor conveyed through visuals. On top of being laugh-out-loud funny, his comedies can withstand the most rigorous rewatches (I lost count…
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Advertisements The best way to truly understand Susanna White’s Woman Walks Ahead is to consider it more as a fictionalized and romanticized account of a moment in painter and Native American rights advocate Catherine Weldon’s life and less of a historical record…
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Advertisements “Every gun makes its own tune.” Widely considered to be Sergio Leones’s opus alongside Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is the conclusion to the Dollars Trilogy, one of cinema’s greatest mythical weaves. While…
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Advertisements I‘ll start by dispelling a common misconception: this movie is not terrible. It’s not great, don’t get me wrong, but it certainly isn’t worth the disdain some have for it. It’s not Attack of the Clones bad; it’s more Return of the Jedi bad. It…
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Advertisements In the 2000s era, I have cherished and admired romantic dramas like Before Sunset, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and, of course, In the Mood for Love. Now, I believe Brokeback Mountain deserves a spot among the outstanding creations of…
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Advertisements Noah Baumbach’s career spans over twenty years; his filmography—we’ll be hearing a lot about that—includes a slew of interesting and diverse pieces, many quite different and unique from one another. But what has been most fascinating in my recent deep dive…
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Advertisements Imagine a wasteland. Civilization has ceased to exist. People are killed over resources that are vital to the post-apocalyptic economy: water, food, and gasoline. Cars are now war machines, scantily clad biker gangs are maniac bandits, and people band as tribes…
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