This year’s Mean Girls remake created the perfect storm for Mean Girls fans. Yes, it was the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, but it also falls in the year of the 20th anniversary of the original film. So Paramount...
Dogfight is another movie I never saw until the Criterion Collection introduced it to me. I’d heard about it. Collecting ‘90s movie magazines, it would get small write ups, so when Criterion added it for April, I was aware of...
Nearly 30 years later, Cutthroat Island still hasn’t escaped its reputation. But, studios who inherit the Carolco library keep putting it out so perhaps it is making back some of its money. I actually got to see it in a...
Bill Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner...
This 4K UHD is the first time I’ve revisited The Departed since it won Best Picture and Director. Though long overdue, the winning film felt pale in comparison to the likes of Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. I was...
