Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou cordially invites you to join the gang on the Belafonte, a deep... Read More
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Bro takes a unique approach based on growing up. Read More
Artistic entertainment has always been used to teach us lessons about the world and ourselves. The Grimm fairy tales spin... Read More
The French New Wave represents a rejection of the old way of making film. This resembled a great series of... Read More
The Fast and the Furious is an early-‘00s marketing team’s wet dream. Straight from the pages of a street racing... Read More
Shirkers has been with Sandi Tan for over twenty years. Well, let’s take a step back—that’s not entirely true. For... Read More
A ventriloquist without his dummy is just an awkward babbling man. This is the premise of Billy, a film from... Read More
The home buying dream is just that for the modern generation: an unattainable dream. What if you could own a... Read More
At the North Bend Film Festival, the Cinema Vista block is a sure thing, a delightful mixture of varying styles... Read More
After World War II drew to a close, countless women who had discovered purpose in the workforce as factory workers,... Read More
December 28, 2020. Nineteen year old Tyisha Miller pulls over to the side of the road on account of having... Read More
“Something strange is coming to North Bend,” so the Festival tagline goes. And it’s right about the excellent independent offerings... Read More
My Own Private Idaho is a celebration of River Phoenix. This was an actor, an artist, creating at his peak... Read More
Welcome to the second installment in my James Bond retrospective. This here is one of my personal favorites. Before we get... Read More
Modern young adult life is filled with all kinds of puzzles to figure out. Social media, your sexuality, finals, identity... Read More
With GLOW, Netflix lucked into the perfect sitcom formula. Following the Women’s Liberation Movement in the ‘70s, GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies... Read More
This review contains spoilers for Steven Universe season 5 (and prior seasons). Please proceed with caution. Steven Universe is one... Read More
Author’s note: SPOILERS for the third episode of Lodge 49, “Corpus”. Dud’s induction into the lodge as a squire opens... Read More
“There is no version of this job that doesn’t require compromise.” Amazon’s Jack Ryan, the new Prime Video original that... Read More
Vivienne Westwood is a fashion legend who gained her now iconic status as a designer by infiltrating the fashion scene... Read More
Blindspotting is incredibly bold. It tackles systematic racism, police brutality, gentrification, and the deep-seated flaws of the American prison system... Read More
The third installment of the Detective Dee series starts strong, but slowly devolves into the nonsensical CGI spectacle of Tsui Hark's other recent films. Read More
You’re driving away from the dormitory, signs for parties and beer are all over the frat houses. You hope they... Read More
Warning: this review contains minor spoilers for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Remember high school? Wish you didn’t?... Read More
Film Frame Friday is a weekly series where one of our contributors will pick a film and highlight its unique... Read More
This movie looks like it’s going to be monster-created-by-science vs. monster-waste-product-of-said-science. So prepare yourself. I can see some fart jokes... Read More
I love James Bond movies. I didn’t like sports or hunting with my dad, so we bonded (no pun intended)... Read More
Author’s note: SPOILERS for the sixth episode of Castle Rock, “Filter”. Ruth (Sissy Spacek) tells her grandson halfway through the... Read More
The second season of Ozark, premiering on August 31st on Netflix, is a season of risk versus reward. The risk... Read More
Sometimes, what goes on underneath the surface is scarier than what we see. Mindhunter, the latest Netflix creation from thriller... Read More
Author’s note: This article CONTAINS SPOILERS for the episode of discussion and all episodes of the series that have preceded... Read More
“No, you aren’t dreaming.” So says a train conductor early in Wim Wenders’ languid, existential meditation Wrong Move—the middle chapter... Read More
Author’s note: SPOILERS for the second episode of Lodge 49, “Moments of Truth in Service” Times seemed so much kinder... Read More
Lodge 49, created by Jim Gavin and airing on AMC, is about lost and wandering characters seeking some kind of... Read More
A Prayer Before Dawn is steeped in the ruthless authenticity of brilliant documentary filmmaking. This is the kind of review... Read More
Alfred Hitchcock is often accused of being entirely subservient to the whims of the audience; to him, every creative choice... Read More
When I started the Filmstruck Godzilla marathon, I looked up the series as a whole and saw this was a... Read More
This review could be sub-titled: When Viral Tries to Go to the Movies. Based in some town, about some myth,... Read More
I seemed to have come into film by accident. I entered film school on a whim. Not sure what I... Read More
I have put together a collection of what I consider to be noteworthy films directed or written by women. There... Read More
Crescendo: a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music. Warning: this article contains spoilers. Introduction Welcome to Film... Read More
The Conversation is not as well-known as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy or Apocalypse Now, but it rivals them in allure. Read More
“Film Noir” is a term coined by French film critic Nino Frank in 1946, used to describe a slew of... Read More
(Also known as Legend of a Duel to the Death) A Legend or Was It? tells the story of the Sonobe... Read More
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After scoring big at the Chinese box office, this ambitious film hit Western shores with little fanfare, but animation fans should not be sleeping on it. Read More
Author’s note: There are mentions of basic plot for the first three episodes, but the review does not go into... Read More
HBO’s Succession is about power, greed, family, and conscience. One of them, family, is wielded like a weapon, while power... Read More
May as well continue tracking the Godzilla films I watch. I am going to start by saying I’m not a... Read More
Like Father is a worthwhile but ultimately average Netflix Original that surpasses expectations with its down the middle family drama... Read More
Gus Van Sant’s new biopic is about recovery and the mending of the human spirit. The most interesting thing is... Read More
Denzel Washington is good. This isn’t new information. You can put him in the center of anything and an enjoyable... Read More
Throughout the course of HBO’s Big Little Lies, its four leading ladies can be seen staring at the ocean from their... Read More
A shocking, heartfelt, and necessary return to a time not many of us wish to revisit, but one that couldn’t be more needed.
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The long awaited and highly acclaimed Mission: Impossible - Fallout is finally upon us, so let’s take the time to... Read More
Author’s note: light spoilers for the fourth episode of Castle Rock, “The Box.” It is kept as vague as possible,... Read More
Westworld's second season, while still gorgeous to look at and full of high-caliber acting, suffers under its attempt to be clever. Read More
Introducing 50 overlooked films in the criterion Collection hand-picked by our excellent FilmEra community. We’ve put together a beautiful list... Read More
For many, symbolism is a titanic concept. A complex tool in the arsenal of the well-equipped filmmaker, symbolism can bury... Read More
Blue Velvet is masterful filmmaking, blending the light with the dark and propelling human emotion in all its cruelty and beauty. Read More
Prequels have a strict formula. They set up the stories we already love and play into what we loved about... Read More
Bond, Bourne, Hunt. Those are the prestige names in the modern spy blockbuster. Each offers their own brand of action:... Read More
Hulu’s Castle Rock starts with a man, in the dead of winter, searching the snow with a stick. He stabs... Read More
The Graduate opens with a party. But instead of a joyous celebration, we find a nervous, claustrophobic Ben (Dustin Hoffman),... Read More
John Waters is a director most associated with kitsch, overt sexuality, and subversive sincerity. The 1974 film Female Trouble stands as some... Read More
If you read my Meet the Staff piece, you saw La La Land atop my (arbitrary) list of favorite films. Director Damien... Read More
I‘ve kind of procrastinated on this so that I could get some distance between the last Godzilla movie and my... Read More
Terror of Mechagodzilla brings about the end of my journey through the Showa Era of the Criterion Godzilla movies that Filmstruck... Read More
After many months, my slow journey through the Godzilla offerings on Filmstruck is nearly over, but there’s a few more... Read More
Hi, I’m Olwethu Ndaba, and I’m a 20 year old South African literature and film student. For me, trying to... Read More
There are several things I do not like about the movie viewing experience in Taiwan, and chief among them is... Read More
Here We Go Again opens and within minutes we are into our first dance number, with Lily James’ sunshine-like rendition... Read More
Tim Wardle's documentary shines a light on an incredible true story, but lacks the necessary insight to do its subjects justice. Read More
Hotel Transylvania 3 is the closest we’re going to get to a computer-animated Saturday morning cartoon. Returning for a third,... Read More
Ghost World has an electric heart. It’s a spirited outsider story about two girls coming out of high school and... Read More
Another day, another Netflix Original movie. It might be hard to remember, but there was a time—right after the first... Read More
“A lright, alright, alright!” I thought surely we’d have a review up for this, but it does not appear that... Read More
Stanley Kubrick is most famous for his epics, but before he was sending men into outer-space he was sending them... Read More
Christopher Nolan’s revolutionary, genre-defining film The Dark Knight was released to theaters on July 18th, 2008. A lot has changed... Read More
II love movies and I love video games, but when the two paths cross, it can be a mixed bag.... Read More
Writing is a pleasure. Film gazing is a passion. My interests are widespread, and I never tire of the onslaught... Read More
Criterion Month is a massive collaboration across 5 websites in honor of Ingmar Bergman’s 100th birthday and of the films of the Criterion Collection. We hope the celebration of this incredible director—and these classic films—inspire others to find new cinema they love and share their discoveries with others. Read More
Crippled by a lifetime of overthinking, CK is a typical artist - forever worried about rejection, people’s perceptions and how... Read More
