Sinners movie review: bootleg vampires
Wildly primal, big and bold, fueled by pain and rage, by community and family, throbbing with love and sex and joy, infused with magic. A sumptuously textured, unmissable howl of a passion project.
Martin Scorsese
my picks for tonight’s 96th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2023’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is a little worse than how I did last year but better than the year before. So about par for the course for me.
OFCS 2023 awards nominees announced (updated with winners)
Oppenheimer takes eight awards, Barbie four…
AWFJ 2023 EDA Awards winners announced
The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Barbie are the big winners.
daily stream: a progressive voice from a century ago, back from the memory-hole
2017’s The Lost City of Z is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: blood for oil (London Film Festival 2023)
A great American filmmaker on a memory-holed chapter of American history at the intersection of colonialism and toxic masculinity. Massive, epic, and essential. Scorches the earth of our complacency.
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
What might reinvented cinema look like? What kinds of stories might cinema tell that it hasn’t been in recent years, or ever? Where do we go from here?
daily stream: just another Scorsese masterpiece
2006’s The Departed leaves US Netflix soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the UK.
loaded question: what 2023 films are you most looking forward to?
New year, tons of new movies coming our way! Here’s a list of some of the big 2023 titles we know about so far to get you started salivating…
weekend watchlist: when the ghosts won’t shut up
Plus sci-fi noir, sun-fueled madness, and more. (First published August 12th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
