2018 Ranked
Seen in Theaters

Doomed romance meets lost at sea in this film that tells the true story of Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin). Director Baltasar Kormákur is no stranger to the true story survival/disaster sub-genre, having previously directed both The Deep (2012) and Everest (2015) with Adrift allowing him to showcase his familiarity and capability with the sub-genre. Cutting between five months prior to the capsizing of their boat in the Pacific Ocean and…

NOTE: This excerpt is the introductory section of an essay I wrote for Cineccentric, entitled "The Role of Nostalgia in the Films of Todd Haynes". Here is a link to entire piece, one which I spent a good amount of time writing and am reasonably proud of having written. In advance, thank you to anyone who opts to follow the link and spend part of their life reading the essay. It is appreciated more than you know.

Todd Haynes is…

2018 Ranked
Seen in Theaters

Ocean’s 8: Or Gary Ross Tries to Be Steven Soderbergh, Fails, and Wastes An Incredible Cast. Featuring a Soderbergh-esque visual style, the same editing flair of his Ocean’s films, and the exact same story beats of all of Soderbergh’s heist films, but with an all-female cast, Ocean’s 8 just feels tired from beginning to end. Heading into this one with pretty solid hopes of getting a good, fun, and funny film, Ocean’s 8 winds up…

20 Films x 5 Decades: 1970s

The first film directed by the great Michael Cimino, one can see some of the very same shots and camera movements that would come to define his masterpieces The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate in this slick action buddy film. Starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a bit unconventional and has even been cited by some critics as an “meditation on, rather than a representation of, the male camaraderie theme”.…

2011 Ranked

Forgive me father, for I have sinned. When I saw Drive for the first time in 2013, I had just finished my first film class in high school and was set to graduate from high school in a few weeks. Now, a week and a half removed from finishing college a semester early, it was time to atone for the sins of my youth. Unacquainted with good films at the time aside from the ones I saw in…