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 the well-received In the Bedroom (2001) and Little…
By Megan Bianco In true George Miller fashion, the Aussie filmmaking legend’s latest release, Three Thousand Years of Longing, is epic, colorful, fantastical, wild and— as…
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 agree that this straight-to-streaming film…
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 have a new movie with…
By Megan Bianco It’s hard to believe, but Baz Luhrmann’s new film, Elvis, based on the life of superstar Elvis Presley, is the first theatrically released…
By Megan Bianco Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986) is so ingrained in 1980s pop culture and nostalgia that seeing these characters do everyday things in the 21st…
By Megan Bianco Alex Garland’s new film, titled simply Men, is the latest in what I guess we can categorize as “#metoo movies.” Unlike Ridley Scott’s The…
By Megan Bianco I hate sounding overly dramatic, but the first half of Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent almost instantly set off…
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 Lost City after revisiting Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing…
By Megan Bianco Joachim Trier’s new romantic dramedy, The Worst Person in the World, has been getting praise since its European release last autumn, and I’m…
