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

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

Glasgow Film Festival Review: Muta’Ali Muhammad’s ‘Cassius X: Becoming Ali’

By Ross McIndoe on March 11, 2023

An Interview with ‘Hadinelentu’ Filmmaker Prithvi Konanur

By Dipankar Sarkar on March 10, 2023

The Art of Hardly Trying: Dean Martin’s 60s Swing

By D.M. Palmer on March 8, 2023

We Failed This Film: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Lost River’

By Dylan Moses Griffin on October 2, 2015

A Column by Dylan Moses Griffin

Blood for Dracula Movie Essay - 1974 Paul Morrissey Film

Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Blood for Dracula’ (Paul Morrissey, 1974)

By Justine Peres Smith on October 1, 2015

“‘Blood for Dracula’ is confusing thematically, but I think that’s part of the point. As pulpy as it is, Morrissey’s film strongly confronts and challenges our ideas of purity and gender.”

Review: Douglas Tirola’s ‘Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon’

By Jordan Brooks on September 30, 2015

“Expanding on the standard documentary outline, director Douglas Tirola strings a series of in-depth interviews together with original National Lampoon magazine artwork, album excerpts and stage show footage — providing enough tits, drugs and comedy to satiate fans young and old.”

‘The Martian’ Is a Surprisingly Light-Hearted Success for Ridley Scott

By Josh Slater-Williams on September 29, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

“As a piece of sweeping populist entertainment, The Martian is a great success, despite a couple of issues that perturb throughout.”

The Dueling Cavalier: Gravity of Violence in ‘Sicario’

By Max Bledstein on September 28, 2015

A Column by Max Bledstein

His Blazing Automatics: Ramin Bahrani’s ‘Chop Shop’ and the New Americana Film Movement

By Dylan Moses Griffin on September 25, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

A Column by Dylan Moses Griffin

Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Smooth Talk’ (Joyce Chopra, 1985)

By Justine Peres Smith on September 24, 2015

A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith

Review: Andrew Haigh’s “45 Years”

By Jordan Brooks on September 24, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

“45 Years is unconcerned with the “cuteness” of love — Haigh wants to know what makes it tick.”

Vague Visages’ Q.V. Hough and Max Bledstein Discuss ‘Narcos’

By Q.V. Hough on September 23, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

A Conversation about Netflix’s Polarizing Series

Review: David Chen’s ‘The Primary Instinct’

By Jordan Brooks on September 22, 2015

“A remarkably pervasive journey through one man’s search for meaning in his own life, The Primary Instinct captures an utterly captivating performance in a very standard way.”

Struggling to Portray Evil: ‘Narcos’ Episodes 1.6-1.10

By Max Bledstein on September 21, 2015

“Narcos resorts to cheap tactics to depict just how ‘bad’ these characters are.”

Review: Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Everest’

By Jordan Brooks on September 18, 2015

“As impressive and excruciating as Hall and his team’s journey was, Everest fails to capture the specifics.”

We Failed This Film: Scott Cooper’s ‘Out of the Furnace’

By Dylan Moses Griffin on September 18, 2015

A Series by Dylan Moses Griffin

Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Bullhead’ (Michaël R. Roskam, 2011)

By Justine Peres Smith on September 17, 2015

A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith

Not Fall Apart: The New York Mets and September Collapses

By Dylan Moses Griffin on September 16, 2015

“Someone pull Don Draper off his office couch, it’s time to meet the Mets.”

VOD Review: ‘The Overnight’ Is a Sincere Sex Farce

By Josh Slater-Williams on September 15, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

“The Buñuelian meets the Duplassian in The Overnight, a chamber comedy of social and sexual manners from director Patrick Brice (2014’s Creep).”

Limited Omniscience: ‘Narcos’ Episodes 1.1-1.5

By Max Bledstein on September 14, 2015

“Netflix’s new series Narcos begins with a quote regarding the birth of magical realism, and its point of emphasis reveals quite a bit about the series it precedes.”

His Blazing Automatics: The Theme Park Ride Exhilaration of Marcus Dunstan’s ‘The Collector’ and ‘The Collection’

By Dylan Moses Griffin on September 11, 2015

A Column by Dylan Moses Griffin

Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Cat People’ (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)

By Justine Peres Smith on September 10, 2015

A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith

Review: Brian Helgeland’s ‘Legend’

By Jordan Brooks on September 10, 2015

“Little more than an extravagant, blood-soaked and alcohol-fueled story, Legend fulfills its title; an overinflated piece of bar room folklore better told over a cold pint of Guinness (or several)”

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