Greetings, fellow exhausteds, and welcome to The Best Films of 2020, a year that, despite being less than 365 days old, has aged so rapidly that Gary Oldman is circling the biopic. Some, uh, unusual stuff happ...
Is awards season actually happening? Skeptics may still think it's pointless due to a theatrical distribution system ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, but things are moving forward. And, a small bit of norm...
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spl...
Kelly Reichardt is known for her films with lived-in details, complex female lead characters and poignant social commentary. Despite making gem after gem, Reichardt is not immune to the problems of being an in...
American filmmaker and screenwriter Kelly Reichardt has been critical of the Academy Awards in the past. In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, she was very clear about her feelings. “I just don’t give a ...
I've likely written too many stories over the past few months using a creative motif that references our current state of affairs to that of the darkest timeline or an alternate world where the sun is shining ...
In recording over 50 episodes of the Four Quadrant podcast, this writer has rarely been so surprised you could categorize it as "shocked." That wasn't the case when speaking to actor John Magaro last week. The...
When it rains, it pours. But sometimes, it’s a good pour. On the latest episode of The Discourse – the show where we discuss film news, reviews, and any other pertinent pop culture items that we feel the need ...
Some spoilers follow for “First Cow.”
Kelly Reichardt’s films are chameleons. At first, they seem like romanticized versions of American tropes: the bond between a girl and her dog, in “Wendy and Lucy;” a p...
The first half of 2020 has been one of the most tumultuous periods in the century-plus history of the motion picture industry, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the entire activity of theatrical movie-going f...