Lance Hammer made one film in 2008, won Best Director at Sundance, disappeared for nearly two decades, and came back with Queen at Sea, a movie about a woman, Amanda, watching her mother, Leslie, vanish into dementia while her stepfather keeps having sex with his wife. This is not a gentle return. This is a man who saved up eighteen years of something to say and decided to say all of it at once. What Hammer does with this premise is not what you might expect. This is not a fi

The newest film from LAIKA is the stop-motion animated film Wildwood, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis. Written by Chris Butler and directed by Travis Knight, the film adaptation follows a girl named Prue, who finds herself entering a mystical forest alongside her classmate Curtis in order to rescue her brother, who was taken away by a murder of crows. Wildwood is simply stunning on screen from beginning to end, making for one of this d

"It's official, old buddy. I'm a has-been." It’s been over seven years since we saw Quentin Tarantino on the silver screen with a brand-new film. This year, we’ll be getting another adventure within the director’s playground in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, and this time David Fincher will be helming it. But before we get there, I figured it was time to revisit Quentin’s film, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. It had been a long time since I last saw it in full.