Sean Baker’s parents probably whipped his ass every time he cursed as a child. So as revenge he decided to make a movie that answered the question, “what if Charlie Sheen was the son of a Russian oligarch?“
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Blancanieves 2012
Snow White Marathon: Day 5, in which Pablo Berger grounds the Grimm fairy tale in a plausible period piece with very little to no fantasy elements, but he gives us the closest thing in modern cinema to Rita Hayworth removing her gloves in Gilda
Stylistically of course, it's easy to compare this to The Artist, which preceded this by a year. But it's also hard to not be thinking about Pan's Labyrinth a little bit, if mostly for the parallels…
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Tampopo 1985
Criterion Challenge 2025 #10: Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
I hate the phrase "an absolute delight of a film" that so many people (mostly critics for major publications who are paid to say it) casually toss around. But I might apply it here, although I still feel like that would be an inadequate way to describe this. "Savory pleasure" is probably a more accurate phrase, in the way that it feels almost fantastical with its approach to depicting the art of…
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996
Happy 25th to a film that would be 5 stars without its GODDAMN GARGOYLES.
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Wish 2023
Disney needs to make an evil princess movie. But I don’t think Jennifer Lee is ready for that kind of tribute or portrayal.
I’m not ready to call the newest film from the Walt Disney Animation Studios the worst of their feature canon, but it is arguably the single stupidest movie they have ever made; without question it has the single most inept and inane concept of any of their 62 features, by a country mile at least (only Ralph…
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