O Captain! My Captain!
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild: With a faery, hand in hand. For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” This infamous […]
Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg
Herrmann & Hitchcock: Symphony of Suspense
Few collaborations between artists have ever led to as indelible an array of art as the partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. Of course, both men’s careers are legendary […]
Top 100 Favorite Films
I was recently asked by a friend to rank my Top Five Favorite Films. It was so daunting to limit my list to only five titles that I decided to […]
The Freedom Trilogy
Aristotle was right. The whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes films that are otherwise unrelated form a richer picture than they could merely on their […]
Top 11 Nostalgia Critic Reviews
Laughter is one of the great gifts human beings can give to one another. There’s something cathartically rejuvenating about being doubled over with guttural chortles while witnessing a peerless satirist […]
“The Snowman and the Snowdog” Captures Magic of Original
Whenever I’m asked about what films I consider to be the best ever made, the titles that pop into my head are a smorgasbord of revered classics (“Citizen Kane,” “It’s […]
“Blue Is the Warmest Color” Transcends Controversy, Achieves Greatness
If you prefer films that hold you at a comfortable distance from the action, never daring to impinge on your personal space, then the cinema of Abdellatif Kechiche may not […]
CIFF Exclusive: “12 Years a Slave”
American cinema has never shied away from depicting human atrocity through a historical prism, though the history is rarely that of its own country. Nearly 150 years after the abolition […]
Eduardo Sánchez on “The Blair Witch Project,” “V/H/S/2”
Eduardo Sánchez, the man who redefined modern horror (and independent filmmaking) with 1999’s game-changer, “The Blair Witch Project,” has just returned from his latest trip to the woods. His upcoming […]
The Greatest: Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis
When Meryl Streep presented Daniel Day-Lewis with his third Oscar (making him the first performer in history to receive three Best Actor statuettes) on last month’s telecast, I suddenly realized […]
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