In Split, the latest psychological thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy plays Kevin, “a sufferer of dissociative personality disorder” who kidnaps teenage girls and subjects them to a variety of torments, the specifics of which […]
Christopher Nolan has serious issues with gravity. In both senses of the word, gravity is the unifying force that holds together the dark universe of the caps-intentional Christopher Nolan Blockbuster, damning and defining his films […]
In a world where a box of delicious Nestle Buncha Crunch can cost upwards of $15, scrupulosity is key for moviegoers. With costs ever rising, cinephiles have to exercise caution in their cinephiling; seeing every movie the […]
The high concept at the center of The Purge: Anarchy and its predecessor should make for better drivel than this, but it very definitely doesn’t, and again these are movies whose lofty ideas nosedive in execution to […]
Editor’s Note: In preparation for this review, I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel twice. I did this neither out of adoration nor frustration, but out of functional necessity. See, I fell asleep around midway through […]
Cliche upholds that the human mind is “an excellent servant, but a terrible master.” In The Master, his first film since 2007’s redoubtable There Will Be Blood, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson seeks to dramatize his and our ancient […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 