Editor’s note: the full list of this year’s Oscars winners can be found here. By Geoff Daniels The year 2022 was a fantastic one for cinema, with films such as Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels), Top Gun: Maverick (Kosinski), Tár (Haynes), Women Talking (Polley), All Quiet on the Western Front (Berger), and Nope (Peele) […]
Film Review: “The Creator, a Beautiful Display of Nothing at All”
October 27, 2023 by
By Geoff Daniels The Creator (2023) is a film that finds itself out of time. Although it is a stunning display of Gareth Edwards’ mastery of visual effects and atmospheric imagery, this imagery rests on a flimsy base due to the repetition — rather than the alteration — of conventional science fiction tropes. The story […]
Film Review: “Nolan, Oppenheimer, and their Respective Nuclear Bombs”
September 26, 2023 by
By Geoff Daniels When news broke in September of 2021 that Christopher Nolan had sold his screenplay about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, movie fans rejoiced at the opportunity to see a true master of the craft tackle the incredible story of Oppenheimer’s life. Although Nolan had previously held a longstanding relationship with Warner […]
Movie Review – Man Of Steel
September 17, 2013 by
Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns” (2006) promised to be the grand return of the world’s first superhero after a series of sharply-declining sequels, a series that began as an epic pioneer of superhero cinema (“Superman: The Movie,” 1978) before dying a painful death due to dated fads and irrelevant themes (Richard Pryor’s involvement in “Superman III”, […]
Movie Review: The World's End
September 5, 2013 by
When lead actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up with director Edgar Wright, you know you’re in for something special. Both of their previous collaborations, “Shaun of the Dead” (2004) and “Hot Fuzz” (2007), proved to be both hilarious satires and surprisingly strong contributions to the respective genres they paid tribute to, specifically, horror and […]
Review: Cloud Atlas
November 14, 2012 by
Sometimes trailers can cause an emotional connection. Upon seeing the first trailer release for “Cloud Atlas” this summer, I knew I had to see this film. The trouble with great trailers is that in some cases they create expectations that a movie cannot hope to reach. This was a fear I had before going to […]
Review: Seven Psychopaths
October 25, 2012 by
In 2008, writer/director/playwright Martin McDonagh treated audiences to “In Bruges,” a delightfully dark romp through the lives of vacationing hit men played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. His screenplay was filled with snappy dialogue, dark humor, quirky characters, and unrelated-yet-memorable asides about alcoves and Chinese lollipop men. Some critics even referred to McDonagh as […]
Review: Looper
October 16, 2012 by
When was the last time you went to the cinema and saw a groundbreaking, powerfully original science fiction film? For me, it was when I had the pleasure of watching “District 9,” back in 2009. And before that, “Children of Men” in 2008. Originality in science fiction films, it seems, is hard to come by. […]
