At the Movies: ‘Tar’ Gets Awards Season Finally Going
By Megan Bianco Cate Blanchett’s latest Oscar-friendly tour-de-force, Tár, is also the much-anticipated and hyped return of actor-turned-filmmaker Todd Field. Following ...
By Megan Bianco Cate Blanchett’s latest Oscar-friendly tour-de-force, Tár, is also the much-anticipated and hyped return of actor-turned-filmmaker Todd Field. Following ...
By Megan Bianco Andrew Dominik’s new historical drama, Blonde, has to be one of the most hateful films I’ve ever seen. ...
By Megan Bianco The title of Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss is quickly revealed to be ironic, rather than literal. ...
By Megan Bianco In true George Miller fashion, the Aussie filmmaking legend’s latest release, Three Thousand Years of Longing, is epic, ...
By Megan Bianco Dan Trachtenberg’s soft reboot of Fox’s famous Predator franchise, fittingly called Prey, is the first time I’ve seen critics unanimously ...
By Megan Bianco It’s fitting that during the same season that Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is getting re-released, we also ...
By Megan Bianco Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love & Thunder almost works as a cautionary tale for what happens when you buy into ...
By Megan Bianco It’s hard to believe, but Baz Luhrmann’s new film, Elvis, based on the life of superstar Elvis Presley, ...
By Megan Bianco Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum are back together on the big screen running from dinosaurs ...
By Megan Bianco Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986) is so ingrained in 1980s pop culture and nostalgia that seeing these characters do ...
By Megan Bianco Alex Garland’s new film, titled simply Men, is the latest in what I guess we can categorize as ...
By Megan Bianco I hate sounding overly dramatic, but the first half of Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive ...
By Megan Bianco Someone—most likely screenwriter Seth Gordon—definitely came up with the concept for Adam and Aaron Nee’s new adventure-romcom The ...
By Megan Bianco Recently, I had the rare occasion in which I went into a new movie release completely blind. ...
By Megan Bianco Joachim Trier’s new romantic dramedy, The Worst Person in the World, has been getting praise since its European ...
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