Author: Jacob Oller
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Ocean’s Eleven: We Decide Who Should Be on Sandra Bullock’s Team
Sandra Bullock and friends are putting a team together. As haters continue to hate on female-led films (as they have for as long as men…
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The Secret to Reviewing Mediocre Movies
An optimist’s view on criticism. Nobody wants to make an average anything. Not an average dinner table, not an average timetable; not an average movie,…
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Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Parenthood
Why Tony and Peter’s relationship is the most important part of Civil War. Warning: Mild spoilers for Captain America: Civil War below. As you may or may…
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Keanu Review
Keanu Shows That Sketches Should Stay Short Stretched Jokes Reveal Tired Tropes Even the most absurd movies operate within an internal logic. Whether they’re Looney Tunes or…
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The Punks, Skinheads, and Violence of ‘Green Room’
Jeremy Saulnier 2015 film is about the dangers of modern Nazis and White Nationalists.
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All That Jazz: The Highs and Lows of Miles Ahead and Born To Be Blue
Looking merely at the quality between the two jazz trumpeter biopics released to theaters in the last month, Miles Davis is truly Miles Ahead.
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‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ and ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’
From 2016, this essay by Jacob Oller examines how Richard Linklater’s film relates to Albert Camus’ 1942 philosophical essay.
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Four Lions Says To Laugh in the Face of Terror
Some movies become classics for all the wrong reasons. 2010’s Four Lions, the British terrorist spoof about a crew of bumbling would-be bombers, still rattles…
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How Mary Elizabeth Winstead Became One of Our Great Genre Actresses
Cinema is a pigeonhole business. You make a successful type of movie and that becomes your calling card, your expected modus operandi. A love of…
