Chevalier: Black Violin
I’m an editor on Genius.com, and in that capacity I learned about Joseph Bologne, the 18th-century man better known by his title of the...
Pipeline: Set It Off
Two characters in How to Blow Up a Pipeline meet in a bookstore, where one is working and the other is a customer reading...
Suzume: Weather Girl
If you’re interested in an animated film that doesn’t come from a long-running video-game franchise, Suzume opens this week in a multiplex near you....
Let’s A-Go!
When The Last of Us became a critical and commercial hit, it was easy to see why: The filmmakers adapted one of gaming’s most acclaimed...
Air: Gotta Be the Shoes
I was getting worried about Ben Affleck as a filmmaker. After Argo won that Best Picture Oscar 11 years ago, he followed it up...
Dungeons & Dragons: Harper Edge
A writer-director named Courtney Solomon spent a full decade trying to make a movie out of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and when...
Four Wicks
Before the pandemic, we ran a review of the third John Wick film by a fan of the series. I am not one, and watching...
Inside: Boxed Up
There are a lot of Finding Nemo references in Inside. Not only is the main character named Nemo and played by one of the...
Odds and Ends
I didn’t do this feature last year because I didn’t have enough entries to make a whole article about it. It’s returning with a...
Additional Screaming
I keep being suckered by these Scream movies. Each time, I go in thinking that this time they’ll finally get the formula right, and...
