A Guide to Film Analysis Presentation Creation
Specificity is what makes film commentary work or not work. When you talk about a director's style, a vague claim is fine, but when...
Review: ‘La Bola Negra’Netflix's Dazzling Queer Historical Epic Is Poised To Be A Major...
Netflix clearly has big plans for La bola negra, a sweeping historical epic taking place across three different stories across three separate timelines. What’s...
Review: ‘Whalefall’Austin Abrams Faces Guilt From The Inside Of A Whale's Gut In Riveting,...
The title Whalefall comes from the decaying carcass of a whale that sinks to the ocean floor, where it ironically becomes a source of life that...
Why Your Streaming Account Keeps Asking You To Verify It’s Really You
You finally settle in. Snack? Check. Up-to-date? You betcha. New episode of your favorite show? You got it. Live wrestling event? I mean, what...
DC Readers: Win Passes To A Special Screening Of ‘Tenzing’ Starring Tom Hiddleston
I'm happy to offer five DC area readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to attend a free special screening of Tenzing,...
Podcast: Does Sorkin’s THE SOCIAL RECKONING Measure Up To THE SOCIAL NETWORK?
On this episode of Cinema Royale, I'm joined by my homie Chris Bumbray of Joblo.com as we review Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning, his...
Review: ‘Animals’Ben Affleck's Politically-Charged Riff On 'High And Low' Lacks Real Bite
Here's hoping the checks are in the mail to Akira Kurosawa and Spike Lee, because Ben Affleck's latest effort behind the camera, Animals, is basically...
Review: ‘California Schemin”James McAvoy Shows His Street Cred With Crowd-Pleasing Biopic On Scottish Hip-Hop...
A Scottish boy who grew up to the sounds of hip-hop in the '90s and early 2000s, it's likely that James McAvoy has a...
Review: ‘Misty Green’Rosalind Eleazar Goes For Broke And Nearly Saves Chris Rock's Bitter Hollywood...
Misty Green, Chris Rock's first film as director since 2014's Top Five, has a blistering, balls-to-the-wall lead performance by Rosalind Eleazar at its core. Chances...
Review: ‘The Social Reckoning’Aaron Sorkin Torches Facebook, Celebrates Journalism In Timely And Engaging Sequel
Aaron Sorkin has necessarily made a completely different kind of movie with The Social Reckoning, his follow-up to 2010's The Social Network, which he wrote...