by Kevin Allen | Jan 21, 2022
Since the late 1970s, filmmaking auteur Pedro Almodovar has received praise from critics and audiences in his home country of Spain as well as in North America, first breaking through stateside with Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown in 1988, then again with...
by Kevin Allen | Jan 20, 2022
2021 was a year that brought about strife not unlike the kind America went through over the course of 2020, from a seemingly ceaseless pandemic and an ongoing standstill between political parties over a myriad of issues to tensions amongst subgroups of society and a...
by Kevin Allen | Jan 13, 2022
In 2018, anime director Mamoru Hosoda received an Academy Award nomination for Mirai, which enthralled audiences with gorgeous animation and a wondrous coming-of-age narrative that explored the psychology of its child protagonist well, yet was lacking in thematic...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 30, 2021
William Shakespeare’s timeless play Macbeth has been adapted to film several times over the years, from Akira Kurosawa’s samurai epic Throne of Blood and Orson Welles’ 1948 adaptation to Justin Kurzel’s dreamlike retelling that starred Michael Fassbender and Marion...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 23, 2021
Ever since debuting with Hard Eight and Boogie Nights in 1997, Paul Thomas Anderson has been a constant presence in the conversation about the best contemporary filmmaking auteur working today, and he continues to solidify himself as such with his new film, Licorice...
