Reviews

Alex Ross Perry has spent a lot of time thinking about video rental stores. More specifically, he’s been thinking about what we can learn from their depictions on film, primarily interrogating the relationship with reality and representation, and what this representation now means that the reality has gone. The

It may seem like an easy target, but it is hard to avoid comparing Joseph Kosinski to the late Tony Scott. Scott followed up the original Top Gun with Days of Thunder, a film widely critiqued on release for feeling largely like a cheaper version of Top Gun with cars.

Chad Stahelski and David Leitch had no idea what they were starting when they began working on the first John Wick in 2013. After cutting their teeth doing action choreography, stunts, and second unit work for the likes of The Wachowskis, John Carpenter, Albert Pyun, and Ringo Lam, they wanted

Every line would be the funniest thing you’ve ever heard if not for every other line.

Pure misery, mean-spirited and endless cruelty that doesn't have the slightest inkling of how to leverage that cruel energy into something impactful.