In early July of 2008, film critic Stephanie Zacharek was having breakfast—toast, eggs, black coffee—at a bistro in Downtown Brooklyn. She was preoccupied, to some extent. She had just posted her review of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight online for Salon.com, one of the most highly anticipated movies of that summer. Needless to say, she…
Author: RJ
The Streaming Wars are heating up. What does this mean for the future of content consumption?
The streaming wars have been heating up for years. Initially, it was Netflix’s game, as the popular service effectively defined streaming as we now know it before anyone even tried to compete. But as media companies started launching their own one-stop streamers, the landscape has shifted—slowly at first but increasingly fast of late. So what…
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Review
There are movies where the creative energy is so bonkers, so high on its own imagination, that you find yourself hanging on by your fingernails. This can be a good thing, like Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or more recently, Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother…
‘Flee’ makes Oscars history, and resonates with the refugee crisis
“Flee,” an animated documentary from director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, made history at the Oscars as the first film to be nominated in the documentary, animated, and international feature categories. The Danish documentary about the life of a queer Afghan refugee named Amin has been praised as a unique and important piece of filmmaking throughout awards…