Thanksgiving is already here, and we’ve found the perfect movie for the occasion. Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz is often held as the greatest rock documentary every made, and it’s easy to see why: The Band’s farewell concert bottles everything cool, everything tragic, and everything beautiful about being a rock star, all in one magnificent film.…
The Last Waltz serves as the glorious, glowing sunset for rock's greatest era. Orange, yellow, and red lights bathe the musicians, who are mostly dressed in browns and blues. Deep shadows cut their weary faces. It's as if everyone who played at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom knew this gig would serve as…
This review will represent a savage battle fought between my mind and heart. After all, the former is completely aware that Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a blatant attempt to cash in on the most lucrative currency in all of pop culture: Nostalgia. Meanwhile, my inner goob is a total sucker for proton packs,…
For this week’s Cinemavino, it’s one of the more decorated movies we’ve covered in a good long while: Another Round won the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and Thomas Vinterburg was nominated for Best Director. After a steady stream of Halloween flicks, this art house flick was a nice palate cleanser.
The crux of the…
*Note: This is a re-upload of a review first published on November 19, 2020.
After We Collided the dippy sequel to 2019's After effectively doubles down on everything that made its predecessor a mind-boggling, diaper-filling assault on the senses. Repugnant characters come back even more obnoxious. People speak in clunky, clattering dialogue…
After three horrifying After movies, I'll go ahead and say it: Nothing about any of this saga is romantic. If anything, these ugly, miserable, pedantic stories represent an all-out assault on the very idea of romance. In After We Fell, the lead characters spend 99 minutes screaming, sobbing, and aggressively trying to…
As we drift through the pandemic doldrums, one thing is becoming increasingly clear to me: Covid-19 has permanently altered us as a movie audience. When we see Finch Weinberg (Tom Hanks) ambling through the eerie stillness of a post-apocalyptic world, it hits differently now. His uneasy blend of loneliness, anxiety, and plucky…
Compared to the twenty five movies that came before it, Eternals occupies the most distant orbit in Marvel's sprawling cinematic galaxy. We only hear a few references to Thanos and the Avengers, and even those feel wedged in by obligated screenwriters. This narrative independence means that Eternals can be judged largely on its…
Our discussion of Marvel’s Eternals was planned to be a mini-episode, but it turns out that each of us had a lot to say. So, we present you a full episode discussing the MCU’s latest offering. Spoilers abound, so do proceed with caution. This film is only in theaters, so if you haven’t seen it, do…
It's fitting that M. Night Shyamalan based Old on a graphic novel entitled Sandcastle, as he builds the movie on an intriguing idea, only to spend 108 minutes letting it wash out to sea. And don't get it twisted: I've enjoyed Shyamalan's best work, and I really wanted to add this one to…
