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There are films you see and films you carry. La La Land is the second kind, one of those rare works that does not stay on the screen when the credits roll but follows you out into the parking lot and rides home with you in silence. We first saw it years ago, in a theater, and we have thought about its ending more times than we can count. Returning to it now, we wanted to know whether it holds. Whether the feeling was real or whether we had invented it in the years since, pol

There are filmmakers you discover and filmmakers who discover you, who find you at exactly the moment you needed to be found and rearrange something permanent in the way you see. Bong Joon-ho is the second kind. Most of us in this country came to him through  Parasite , that extraordinary night when the Oscars remembered, briefly, that the rest of the world makes movies too. But to watch  Memories of Murder  again, in this rerelease, is to understand that he arrived fully for

Lately, I've been on a binge to watch/rewatch the more recent Best Picture-nominated films that went home with nothing on Oscar night. I've even made some articles on what may have happened to them over on my Substack account . Since I had a copy of War Horse hiding away in my endless DVD collection, I figured it was time to open this bad boy out and see what I thought of it. Unfortunately, War Horse falls right into the same problems I've been having with Steven Spielberg

"You killed him." "No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him." Do you love Michael Mann films? How about one with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, driving all around Los Angeles for one whole night? Then we got a movie for you named Collateral . It's a high-octane, fast-paced, action thriller with a nail-biting story and a couple of terrific performances by our two leads. The film revolves around cab driver, Max, who picks up Vincent and offers the man $600 to drive him aroun

Despite not being the biggest Coen brothers fan, there's something about No Country For Old Men that just clicks for me. Whether it'd be the terrific ensemble, the detailed writing, or the quiet but subdued pacing, it's a film that's always been on my mind for quite some time. The film follows Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who stumbles upon a botched up drug deal and takes a briefcase that holds $2 million in cash. He discovers he's being followed by a merciless killer by the

As an enjoyer of internet memes and gifs, Nicolas Cage has always been a gold mine. His turns in Con Air, Face/Off, National Treasure,...