Remakes may feel like the name of the game these days, but it’s always been like this. What’s changed is the availability of the original. Saw How to Train Your Dragon in theaters? Watch the animated version on Peacock today! … Continue reading Sweaty Double Feature: THE WAGES OF FEAR and SORCERER
It’s the most common question you get as a film critic: “What’s good?” Variants include: “What do you like?” “What excites you?” “What should I see?” And if you’ve asked me any one of those in the past two months, … Continue reading Perfect Days: Previewing the 2023 Denver Film Festival
One of the more fascinating aspects of the movies is their ability to reach across time and space and continue cinematic conversations that started long ago. Moviegoers will be able to peek in on that conversation next week at The … Continue reading THE [FRENCH] CONNECTION
Today, movies are as visual as they’ve ever been, but they don’t make any sense! They’ve got no heart, very little story. The dialogue is very often a little bit above a grunt… now, for the most part, people just … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 29, 1939
By the time a film of mine makes it into the theaters, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better. —William Friedkin Continue reading Born On This Day — August 29
Michael J. Cinema 