Winner of the Golden Shell for Best Film at this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival, and chosen as Georgia’s entry for the Academy Award for Best International Film, Beginning signals the arrival of a bold new cinematic voice in the form of writer-director Déa Kulumbegashvili — though, as you watch it, it’s hard to…
There are arguably three different kinds of Pixar movies. There are the Exclusively-For-Kids movies (think Cars, The Good Dinosaur, A Bug’s Life), then there are the For-All-Ages movies (The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, recently released Onward), and finally, there are the ones that transcend age entirely and manage to break out of the traditional structures of…
Edward James Olmos has been in the business for over 45 years, establishing himself as one of the go-to Latin talents of his generation. From Blade Runner to Miami Vice, Battlestar Galactica to the recent Sons of Anarchy spin off, The Mayans, Olmos has cropped up in a variety of different roles – each one…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…
“The Simpsons” is officially part of the Hollywood Resistance. The term refers to any show, or performer, dedicated to removing President Donald Trump from office by any means necessary. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn the case of Matt Groening’s iconic show, it often requires weaponing gags and storylines to promote progressive…
In the No Time To Die Countdown, Jake Tropila takes a look back at every Bond film – official and unofficial – in anticipation of the release of the latest entry. At ten years and six films, Roger Moore had officially become the longest-tenured Bond at this point in the series’ time. He had matched…
On the beloved space Western series Firefly, there are creatures called reavers, introduced as the worst beings alive. These homicidal cannibal pirates rape and pillage their way through the universe Joss Whedon created, striking fear in the hearts of all who encounter them. However, when Serenity, the movie based on the series, came out, it…
This is my ranking of the best Netflix Original Movies. There are many like it, but this one is mine. I say that both as a statement of fact and as a preface to a list that you — yes, you — most likely won’t agree with. All quality-based lists are subjective, and that’s okay!…
Ted Sarandos oversees the most consequential media company of the streaming age. Sarandos is the CEO of Netflix, the platform which redefined how we consume content. From the phrase “Netflix and Chill” to Hollywood’s biggest directors planting a flag on Netflix soil, the streamer is as big as any content company not associated with a…
Science fiction is not a safe space! It can’t be. For if it is, it betrays its reason for existing: the unfettered extrapolation of technological and social change. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonHordes of “woke zombies” have invaded science fiction. They inhibit free extrapolation and free speech through aggressive gatekeeping and…
“Unfortunate you if you cannot understand the mysteries of the jungle.” It’s hard to imagine a more fitting opening line for Tragic Jungle, the fifth feature from Mexican filmmaker Yulene Olaizola. Set in the early 1920s on the border between Mexico and Belize (then known as British Honduras), the mysterious, myth-laden film chronicles the encounter…
A horror feature, an animated family short, an Arab-American short film, and more are on the docket for October 2020. Our friends at Seed&Spark have all sorts of projects you can support; what we feature here is merely dipping your toe into the indie filmmaker ocean. REMISSION Remission (2020) – source: Greg Ivan Smith A…
“It is always darkest before the dawn.” The words of Harvey Dent are ones that go beyond the pages of graphic novels and superheroes, encapsulating reality at its worst, all while focusing on the prospects of the future. For many, we need to push ourselves out of our comfort zones, placing ourselves in unfamiliar territory,…
Remember all the outraged headlines over “Saturday Night Live” mocking a sitting president’s medical diagnosis? What about the Twitter accounts featuring preferred pronouns attacking the show for its ghoulish humor? Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonNo? That’s because neither woke progressives nor the mainstream media shared an ounce of anger over it….
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article looking…
The coven reforms in The Craft: Legacy, the latest from writer/director Zoe Lister-Jones. You all remember The Craft, right? That ’90s movie with goth high school witches who took things way too far? Well, we’re finally getting a sequel, although given how similar this feels to the original, it seems to be some mix of sequel, reboot,…
Joe Chappelle’s “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” had the kind of deeply troubled production that made the behind-the-scenes drama more legendary than the film itself. If John Carpenter’s game-changing 1978 original put a genre blueprint firmly in place, it also proved a class-act few have been able to match. Read moreA Guide to The…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article, about…
Welcome to The Prime Sublime, a weekly column dedicated to the underseen and underloved films buried beneath page after page of far more popular fare on Amazon’s Prime Video collection. We’re not just cherry-picking obscure titles, though, as these are movies that we find beautiful in their own, often unique ways. You might even say we…
Author Dinesh D’Souza is the Rodney Dangerfield of documentary filmmakers. He doesn’t get no respect from critics. D’Souza’s last two docudramas, “Hillary’s America” and “Death of a Nation,” scored 4 percent and 0 percent “rotten,” respectively, at RottenTomatoes.com. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe general public, or at least right-leaning America, defiantly…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…