Legendary TV series LOST turns 20!
As legendary television series LOST turns 20, our staff writes a bit about their relationship with the series.
Read MoreEUREKA is three of the year's best movies
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Only the best writers, directors, actors, art departments and so on can give you this much to think about after keeping everything so focused.
WISE GUY: DAVID CHASE AND THE SOPRANOS is a fun ode To TV's best, but never digs deep enough to find the bodies
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
It's clear to everybody that Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos is going to touch on the David Chase of it all as little as its subject can manage.
With DUCHESS, Neil Marshall apes British crime films, gets bloody nowhere, innit?
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Marshall has made a Guy Ritchie or Matthew Vaughn movie, which is to say he's taking their recycled 70s and 80s crime tropes and recycling them again.
Action Movie Countdown #10: ROBOCOP's Intelligence never gets in the way of its face explosions
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
It's time we discuss something, and I think I'm the only person alive with the guts to say it: RoboCop is political.
Action Movie Countdown #17: AKIRA demonstrates how alive animation can feel
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
If you’ve seen five anime movies—and I’ve seen about six—one of them is Akira. It’s huge, and it’s undeniable.
Action Countdown #18: HEAT works best when you give up (the remote) control
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Heat is at its best when you're afraid your neighbor will call the cops.
Pixar's emotional uncanny valley does kids a disservice
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I don't think kids should be shielded from sad material, but I think that sad material should have a purpose. It should have some practical application to a child's life. The Toy Story movies make you sad about things that do not and will never exist.
THIS CLOSENESS is a brilliant zoom-in on fully-realized tension
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I could see being frustrated with This Closeness if I thought I was supposed to relate to any of these people.
PANDEMONIUM feels like a grab bag horror anthology
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I think the film's three segments are each well made, but any overarching narrative feels created after the fact.
BOY KILLS WORLD gets a little too goofy but always kicks ass
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The main problem with Boy Kills World is that we no longer live in a world where studios crank out a half-dozen movies like it every month.
LITTLE EMPTY BOXES is a stealth "health food" documentary with little empathy
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I felt like I had watched somebody use their loved one's death to sell supplements. It hurt. It'll hurt for a while.
No weirder genre than Bruceploitation, no better guide than ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Enter the Clones of Bruce is a hugely fun celebration of the genuinely strange movies that little studios slapped together in the years after Bruce Lee died and the kung fu throne was, sadly, vacant.
CLUB ZERO elegantly says nothing about eating disorders
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Indistinguishable from the propaganda it thinks it's tittering at, like a clown making fun of the person he sees in a mirror.
THE HOBBY thoroughly shows off a bubble without examining it
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
October 2021 to March 2022. That's when director Morgan Jon Fox filmed The Hobby, a new documentary about the business of trading cards, accidentally catching a market most of us never think about at a startling peak.
THE SEEDING is a hungry feature debut
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The Seeding looks and feels like exploitation, especially that early Wes Craven exploitation, and it's a relief
LACED has a great single location set-up, but doesn't quite stick the landing
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Laced is a small crime drama with a simple premise, where things start bad and get worse, which is one of my favorite kinds of movie.
THE OTHER FELLOW examines how names define us by talking with a handful of James Bonds
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Read MoreTIME BOMB Y2K is a nostalgic Rorschach Test about a would-be disaster
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Time Bomb Y2K, a new documentary made up primarily of news and home video footage, opens in 1999, with a very smug man sitting in some hills, saying that if we lose technology, society will return “to dust.”
Alex Rudolph's Best of 2023
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I loved these (and so many more) films this year. Hot damn. Thank god for art.