Director Todd Phillip’s Joker has recently become the first R rated film to gross one billion dollars at the worldwide box office, making it the most profitable comic book film of all time so far. Joker has made over fifteen times what it cost to make. Joker has been the subject of much controversy and […]
The idea of meta-cinema is nothing new. It helps to create additional layers of commentary in the film and helps the directors expose universal truths regarding cinema. Clever filmmakers are using this brilliant and effective device for years and there is no hint of an end. One example can be especially enlightening, although they belong […]
Like any other decade, the 2010s has its fair share of great movies that audiences overlooked. Throughout history, critics return to movies and discover that they underrated many of them. The following 10 movies belong in that category of underrated movies that need to be revisited as they were misunderstood on their original release. […]
Any diehard movie fan will tell you that cult films are alive and well in the new century, two decades now which have seen a wealth of memorable midnight movies, eccentric oddities, sleeper stoner comedies, and other “out there” genre films. The following list looks at “rewatchable” cult films from the 21st century––and by “rewatchable” […]
Yorgos Lanthimos is undoubtedly one of the most influential filmmakers to emerge from the last decade. The Greek made his directorial debut with the experimental feature film “Kinetta,” but it was with “Dogtooth” (2009) that he became successful and recognized worldwide; the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of 2010 […]
Unspooling over a handful of days in February and August of 1969, Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the director’s love letter to Tinseltown, albeit one inked with a poison pen. Atypical of QT, his latest is a giddy grab bag of pop culture references and playful allusions to Hollywood’s […]