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There are filmmakers you discover and filmmakers who discover you, who find you at exactly the moment you needed to be found and rearrange something permanent in the way you see. Bong Joon-ho is the second kind. Most of us in this country came to him through  Parasite , that extraordinary night when the Oscars remembered, briefly, that the rest of the world makes movies too. But to watch  Memories of Murder  again, in this rerelease, is to understand that he arrived fully for

Lately, I've been on a binge to watch/rewatch the more recent Best Picture-nominated films that went home with nothing on Oscar night. I've even made some articles on what may have happened to them over on my Substack account . Since I had a copy of War Horse hiding away in my endless DVD collection, I figured it was time to open this bad boy out and see what I thought of it. Unfortunately, War Horse falls right into the same problems I've been having with Steven Spielberg

Despite its good reviews and word of mouth, I had missed Bart Layton's Crime 101 when it was in theaters earlier this year. It's not alone; it was simultaneously at the cinema with Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die , and I never made it out those few weeks to see that, either. My loss, I suppose, but at least it did not take long for the former flick to hit Hulu for streaming purposes. (As of this writing, the latter picture is only available as a rental, and it's still $20 just

Imagine you are twenty-seven, a global rockstar, producing hit after hit, touring all over the globe, fans love you, and then your world-famous band breaks up. What do you do? This is where Paul McCartney found himself when the Beatles began to fall apart in 1969, as John Lennon left the band. With all that fame and fortune, most would guess McCartney would spend his days after the Beatles’ breakup in some swanky hotel, living the rockstar life. Quite on the contrary, in fact

What's the worst thing you've ever done? This is the key question asked in Kristoffer Borgil's The Drama that sets all of the remaining drama of the film in motion. The film follows engaged couple Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) preparing for their big wedding day. During a dinner with their close friends Mike (Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim), a conversation about the worst things they've ever done leads to Emma revealing something from her teenage year

"You killed him." "No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him." Do you love Michael Mann films? How about one with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, driving all around Los Angeles for one whole night? Then we got a movie for you named Collateral . It's a high-octane, fast-paced, action thriller with a nail-biting story and a couple of terrific performances by our two leads. The film revolves around cab driver, Max, who picks up Vincent and offers the man $600 to drive him aroun

There are books you read once and carry forever, lodged somewhere between the ribs. Albert Camus'  The Stranger  was that book for us, the one that arrived at exactly the right age when the world felt arbitrary and grief felt impossible to perform on cue. Meursault was not a villain. He was just a man who could not make his insides match what the outside demanded. We understood him completely. We were young. The sun had never tried to kill anyone we knew. And yet. So when Fra

Disguised as a sweet treat, Forbidden Fruits  reveals itself to be sticky and messy, like fruit juice running down your arm. Jumping out of the gate with a balls-to-the-walls directorial debut, Meredith Alloway's influence from the teen drama films of the late 90s and early 2000s is willfully embraced to bring forth a new cult classic in 2026.  Confidently walking the halls of an overly busy shopping mall, the Fruits, Apple (Reinhart), Fig (Shipp) and Cherry (Pedretti) sancti

Despite not being the biggest Coen brothers fan, there's something about No Country For Old Men that just clicks for me. Whether it'd be the terrific ensemble, the detailed writing, or the quiet but subdued pacing, it's a film that's always been on my mind for quite some time. The film follows Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who stumbles upon a botched up drug deal and takes a briefcase that holds $2 million in cash. He discovers he's being followed by a merciless killer by the