Festival films usually start hitting the rest of us around now, those harder-to-find-flicks from the previous year’s Sundance and Cannes…
Christopher’s Top 10(-ish) of 2016
This list is coming in a little later than your typical end of year lists for a couple of reasons,…
Scorsese’s Silence Puts on Display the Mastery of Cinema
I talk a lot about things I love, about things I’m drawn to and film or storytelling that sucks me…
Better a Sage, Mary Silvestri
The typewriters clacked away under nervous fingers as Bossman strode up and down the aisles. Cracking rang out as the…
Clint’s Top 10 Films of 2016
2016 was an eye-rolling year for a lot of reasons, but in terms of film releases we actually got a…
The Most Charming Film of the Year is, Without a Doubt, Chazelle’s “La La Land”
I’ve never been big on musicals. Like most guys my age, I was in the prime demographic when Johnny Depp…
“Passengers” isn’t Awful, but Troubling Thematic Threads are Worrying
The news about this film has been troubling to say the least. By now the secret is out, the “twist”…
The First “Star Wars” Spinoff is a Rousing Success
I’m a lot of things. I’m a casual gamer, an amateur fantasy fan, recently I’m a fitness guy, but there’s…
The Rustling of Leaves
His lungs burned in the cold night air as he took another drag on the cheap cigar. The little girl…
Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals” is a Flawed but Gripping Film
I’ve seen films I enjoyed far more than this one in 2016. I’ve seen much better as well. None hit…
