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…
Sometimes, a movie is released and the hype/controversy surrounding it is too much for the movie to get out from underneath. Sometimes this means we sit down in the cinema with expectations and preconceived notions that we can’t escape. Away from the Hype is an ongoing series looking at some of these movies years away from…
Isabella (dir. Matías Piñeiro) Isabella (2020)- source: Cinema Guild Isabella has all of the makings of a movie I would, could, and should enjoy. From the beginning, it confidently declares itself as a theoretical dive into the ideas of ‘performance’, ‘narrative structure’, and the ways that visual elements play into moods. Shades of blue, green,…
The white Alba truffle is one of the most desired and rare mushrooms in the world. And, to make it all the more rare and desire-able, to this day it can not be cultivated. It can only be hunted by those who have become masters of their trade. Yet, truffle hunting is not a one-man…
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 online article…
Few directorial debuts this year will be as impressionable and as impressive as Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version. The semi-autobiographical film, which follows a thinly-veiled version of the director as she balances her theater career and her new hip-hop gig, won Blank a directing award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And now, over half a…
There’s something oddly refreshing about a new Woody Allen movie in 2020. That recognizable credit font. The old timey music setting the stage for Neurosis Theater. The now youthful stand in for Allen himself, having long since aged out of the gig, cracking wise for our amusement. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…
Any film would kill to have a cast like “The War with Grandpa” boasts. Robert De Niro. Uma Thurman. Christopher Walken. Comic scene stealer Rob Riggle. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe film itself doesn’t tax any of the above. It’s a frothy, paint-by-numbers comedy that cant even commit to its central…