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given tim burton’s comments about diversity not fitting his aesthetic, i love that henry selick is reclaiming the aesthetic that should’ve always been rightly attributed to him with something so black. reclamation is punk and prisons are not!
I’m glad The Menu never takes itself too seriously, because the movie is at it’s best when it gets extremely goofy, which is often. The story may veer into the predictable side of things, but like the film’s ornate food presented to its posh patrons, it’s all about the *journey*. It’s always a treat to see the elite get humiliated, but high brow foodie culture needs to get dunked on more often and The Menu is maybe the best (or at least my favorite) to do it.
I always imagined that Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” would be the first movie I ever showed my son. But sometime last summer — about 30 minutes into an eight-hour flight, or roughly 29 minutes after his 2-year-old mind grew bored with sitting inside a massive steel tube as it rocketed across the sky at 300 mph — I delegated the honor of choosing Asa’s first movie to the fine people who program Delta’s in-flight entertainment.
The options were rather…
“I think that I definitely love the use of genre as a vehicle for telling grounded, socially relevant stories. I think it's a really interesting way to guide an audience into focusing on characters they typically have not seen centred.”
We champion a master of contemporary noir for our final Noirvember pick, with Christian Petzold’s atmospheric post-war mystery PHOENIX.
Talk about lost luggage! Recently, over an hour of never-before-seen footage from Planes, Trains and Automobiles was discovered in John Hughes' archives and is now available to watch at home for the first time ever.
Our second-annual, film-themed guide to the holiday season.
Director Elegance Bratton discusses adapting his personal experience, visual influences like Claire Denis’s Beau Travail and Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, and working with Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union.
In 2009, James Cameron's Avatar ripped up the blockbuster rulebook.
A precocious child of the cinema, Philippe Garrel, son of the actor Maurice Garrel, made his first films in the mid-1960s. His dazzling and incandescent cine-poems are called Les Enfants désaccordés (1964), Marie pour mémoire (1967), Le Révélateur (1968, with Bernadette Lafont) or La Concentration (1968, with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Zouzou). Alongside the singer Nico, his seventies companion, his quest for an existence transcended by art became psychedelic (from La Cicatrice intérieure in 1971 to L'Enfant secret in 1979). His…
This morning, we announced the Film Independent Spirit Awards film nominees for the 38th annual awards ceremony, set to return in-person to the beach at Santa Monica Pier on Saturday, March 4, 2023. For the third year, the Spirit Awards will also be recognizing outstanding achievement in uniqueness of vision, innovation and boldness in TV and streaming. As a reminder, television category nominees will be announced separately by Orange Is the New Black alum, Asia Kate Dillon, on Tuesday, December 13.
Rian Johnson's latest whodunit, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, opens for a one-week theatrical run on Wednesday, before premiering on Netflix on Dec. 23. Critic Andrew Wyatt has a review:
The holidays are a time to bring your family and friends together and eat some good food. Oh, and to watch horror films.
