Middleburg Review: ‘The Holdovers’Alexander Payne And Paul Giamatti Bring Grumpy Charm To The Holidays
The 1970s aesthetic deployed by Alexander Payne in his charming new dramedy, The Holdovers, isn't a mere gimmick. From the technicolor palette to the pops...
Middleburg Review: ‘Saltburn’Emerald Fennell's Stylish, Kinky Aristocratic Thriller Ensares You In Its Web
If Cruel Intentions and Brideshead Revisited were burned to ashes then laced with acid and smoked, you'd get the sensation of Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman follow-up, Saltburn. A constantly-shocking...
Middleburg Review: ‘American Fiction’Jeffrey Wright Leaves Them Bamboozled In Funny, Insightful Satire About Plight...
In 1985, Robert Townsend offered one of the most insightful, and funniest looks at the relationship between art and Black culture with Hollywood Shuffle. The...
Middleburg Review: ‘Frybread Face And Me’Taika Waititi Produced Coming Of Age Story Is A...
In the semi-biographical coming-of-age film, Frybread Face and Me, a young man encounters the different generations of women in his family. Obsessed with pop...
Review: ‘The Holdovers’Alexander Payne And Paul Giamatti Bring Grumpy Charm To The Holidays
The 1970s aesthetic deployed by Alexander Payne in his charming new dramedy, The Holdovers, isn’t a mere gimmick. From the technicolor palette to the pops...
Middleburg Review: ‘May December’Julianne Moore And Natalie Portman Square Off In This Uncomfortable Psychological...
In legendary director Todd Haynes May December, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton are very much in love. Or at least that’s what they want...
31 Days Of Horror: Day 29 ‘Bloody Birthday’ (1981)Written and Directed by: Ed Hunt
Synopsis: Three children were born at the height of an eclipse of the sun in 1970. Ten years later, they begin to murder the...
31 Days Of Horror: Day 30 ‘The Children’ (1980)Directed by: Max Kalmanowicz
Synopsis: A nuclear plant leak turns a bus load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Continuing with the “creepy children” plot device,...
Review: ‘The Marvels’Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, And Iman Vellani Go Intergalactic In Marvel's Unexpectedly...
The Marvels arrives with everyone pretty much already having written it off. Ostensibly the sequel to 2019's $1.1B-grossing Captain Marvel, the film arrives with Marvel knocked...
Review: ‘Aladdin’, Will Smith Dazzles In Disney’s Surprisingly Magical Remake
Following the mediocre Dumbo and The Nutcracker, it really is a whole new world for Disney with Aladdin. Disney's riskiest live-action remake yet, the...