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Film, TV & Music • Forming the Future • Est. 2014

Review: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’

By Kevin Fox, Jr. on March 22, 2023

Review: Kevin Abrams’ ‘I Got a Monster’

By Joey Keogh on March 21, 2023

Collecting Movies with Mike Flanagan

By Greg Carlson on March 20, 2023

Review: Chad Stahelski’s ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’

By Kevin Fox, Jr. on March 15, 2023

Review: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s ‘Scream VI’

By Joey Keogh on March 15, 2023

Collecting Movies with ‘JessZilla’ Filmmaker Emily Sheskin

By Greg Carlson on March 13, 2023

Why I Wear the Mask: Tom Hardy’s Performances of Limitation

By Brian Brems on October 16, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“Behind the mask, lurking within the timbre of the vocal choices, buried beneath the shaped physique, there is truth.”

Album Review: Melkbelly ‘Nothing Valley’

By Leslie Hatton on October 13, 2017

“Melkbelly is hard to pin down; their songs flaunt a flagrant disregard for what many would consider indie rock or punk or post-punk.”

London Film Festival Review: Léonor Serraille’s ‘Jeune femme’

By Benedict Seal on October 13, 2017

“Dare I say it, but ‘Jeune Femme’ is as ripe for an American remake as any film I’ve seen on this year’s festival circuit.”

London Film Festival Review: Rungano Nyoni’s ‘I Am Not a Witch’

By Becky Kukla on October 13, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“Shot beautifully, with an imposing yet wholly appropriate classical soundtrack to match, ‘I Am Not a Witch’ is worth the watch.”

London Film Festival Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Loveless’

By Benedict Seal on October 12, 2017

“Much like ‘Leviathan,’ the film is oppressively bleak.”

London Film Festival Review: Vivian Qu’s ‘Angels Wear White’

By Benedict Seal on October 11, 2017

“Vivian Qu’s ‘Angels Wear White’ is another realist, slow cinema meditation on the social troubles in China.”

Disney Dreams in Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’

By Caroline Madden on October 11, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

“‘The Florida Project’ is a marvelous portrait of childhood that depicts how it feels to live on the fringes and just out of reach from The Happiest Place on Earth.”

London Film Festival Review: Dee Rees’ ‘Mudbound’

By Benedict Seal on October 10, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“‘Mudbound’ plays the game and begins with a white man, but, throughout the course of an epic tale, it arrives at a moving destination.”

Review: Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Blade Runner 2049’

By Justin Micallef on October 6, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“If time has the power to render every structure and memory as null, then here are the moments that define humanity; here are the moments that we hope to remember.”

London Film Festival Review: Todd Haynes’ ‘Wonderstruck’

By Benedict Seal on October 6, 2017

“This kind of world recreation doesn’t come cheap, and it’s a delight to see a filmmaker of Haynes’ caliber given such a worthy budget.”

Album Review: O.R.B. ‘Naturality’

By Leslie Hatton on October 6, 2017

“The first two songs on ‘Naturality’ prove O.R.B.’s members have clearly got the chops to do something different with their doom-inspired template.”

London Film Festival Review: Andrew Haigh‘s ‘Lean on Pete’

By Benedict Seal on October 5, 2017

“‘Lean on Pete’ hits the mark emotionally and reveals itself to be a poised, moving film.”

The Joy of Creating: On Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Hana-bi’

By David Pountain on October 4, 2017

“‘Hana-bi’ is a deeply personal labour of love made by an artist observing his own enigmatic nature from a variety of angles in an attempt to arrive at some clarifying epiphany.”

Clothes Make the Man: Remembering Harry Dean Stanton

By Tanner Tafelski on October 3, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

“Harry Dean Stanton was dependable, durable and made whatever part his own, no matter how big or small.”

Low-Budget and Lurid: Inside the Macabre Cinematic Universe of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle

By Kate Blair on October 3, 2017 • ( 5 Comments )

“To watch Roger Corman’s Poe movies is to visit a mythic dreamscape where the boundaries between life and death are permeable.”

Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien: Covenant’: Another Look at the Power of Creation and Destruction

By Peter Bell on October 2, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

“The stories and conflicts of Scott’s android characters cause viewers to contemplate a number of issues relevant to the human condition.”

My Summer of Dunst: Series Conclusion

By Kristen Lopez on September 29, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

“Kirsten Dunst deserves an apology, and a second look, from all of us.”

New York Film Festival Review: Serge Bozon’s ‘Madame Hyde’

By Demi Kampakis on September 28, 2017

“‘Madame Hyde’ crystallizes its views about the absurd limitations in trying to communicate the abstract gift of knowledge.”

‘American Made’: Cruising into Character

By Colin Biggs on September 27, 2017

“One doesn’t expect an immediate return to iconic roles like Vincent Lauria or T.J. Mackey, but hopefully Barry Seal is just the start.”

Review: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’

By Clayton Schuster on September 27, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“If ‘mother!’ lacks the refinement of a manifesto for a new breed of movie theater flick, it makes up for it in the audacity to be unique.”

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