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A gleefully gory homage to coming of age in the ’90s, Y2K,” the directorial debut of “SNL” vet Kyle Mooney, is as much a love letter to a specific period and also a warning against the trappings of nostalgia. Taking place on New Year’s Eve in 1999, the film takes its elevator pitch of “What…
One of our favorite traditions in best-of-the-year festivities is a lineup that tends to find a more interesting path than any guilds or critics groups. The wonderfully eccentric John Waters, whose tastes always includes a mix of the unexpected and underseen, hasn’t let us down with his top 10 films of 2024. Published at Vulture,…
What does it mean for something to ‘has fallen’? Up till now, one could argue that it happens whenever Gerard Butler, sporting a face full of stubble and a dodgy American accent growled through gritted teeth, finds himself in a “Die Hard”-esque scenario requiring the protection or reclamation of a place or people against anonymous…
We’ve reached another year’s end, so get ready for all the limited releases and qualifying runs primed for Oscar consideration as guild votes start propping up their prospective favorites. All while most of you cross your fingers that you won’t have to wait too long for everything to finally open at a theater near you.…
Director Justin Kurzel’s films have disarmingly explored the ways ideological radicalization coupled with social exclusion can lead to great violence. His latest film, the police procedural The Order,” is the finest distillation of his ability to shade genre thrills with disturbing, real-world relevance. Based on the non-fiction title The Silent Brotherhood, the film is set…
“This is Absolutely Not the True Story of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” The opening crawl of all six episodes of Prime Video’s “The Sticky” is meant to make clear that this stranger-than-fiction comedic thriller plays fast and loose with the truth. But it also draws a parallel to its most blatant inspiration, the…
After fearlessly interrogating man’s capacity for evil in Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. Despite that unexpected logline, the core themes Oppenheimer grapples with in his work––i.e. the nature of absolution and the…
The long-awaited James Gunn & Peter Safran relaunch of the DC Universe has finally taken flight. Not with Gunn’s upcoming Superman movie, mind you, but with “Creature Commandos,” an animated series centered around a monster team going on globe-trotting missions to save the world. It may seem like a new version of Gunn’s “The Suicide…
The fight for Palestinian livelihood, repatriation, the Argentine gaucho community, a pair of England’s greatest directors, Chinese textile mills, a legendary artist’s final performance, the frontlines of the war on Ukraine––just a few of the subjects and stories this year’s documentaries brought us. With 2024 wrapping up, we’ve selected the non-fiction features that left us…
A very cool event is going to unfold at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica this weekend, including a Q&A hosted by our very own Chaz Ebert, alongside some very rare screenings from December 6-9. RescueFest features 4K restorations of 10 films that have been incredibly hard to find in the years since…
