Author: Matthew Monagle
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Free State of Jones and the Failure to Progress
How Can the 26-Year-Old Glory Still Run Circles Around a Contemporary Civil War Film? At the end of an otherwise glowing review of Edward Zwick’s Glory,…
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‘The Rocketeer’ is Still Flying High After All These Years
The celebration of movie anniversaries has become something of a cottage industry in film criticism. In the need to cater to millennial-inspired nostalgia, the threshold…
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The Shallows Has Us Right Where It Wants Us
This Modestly Budgeted B-Movie Played Us Like A Fiddle. We’re only a week away from its release and I’m still absolutely fascinated by the positive buzz…
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How Do You Make A Movie About the Present?
Why The Fits Is The Perfect Movie About Right Now. On October 7, 2008, Variety published its review of W., the upcoming George W. Bush biopic…
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What We Can Learn From The History of Hollywood Reshoots
What Can Old Headlines Teach Us About the Good (and Bad) of Reshoots? Star Wars: Rogue One went back for reshoots and now everyone is…
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Why Famous Filmmakers Praise the Remakes They Didn’t Actually Make
A Certain Tendency of Franchise Cinema By now, you’ve probably read Devin Faraci’s piece on why fandom is broken. If not, take a moment to…
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It’s OK to Get Hyped for Independence Day: Resurgence
All the cool kids are doing it So the internet would have me believe that there are people in this world that are not excited about…
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Why Beat Up X-Men: Apocalypse When You Can Go Watch Sky High?
Why the 2005 Superhero Family Film Is Only Getting Better With Age By now you’ve probably heard that critics aren’t particularly big on X-Men: Apocalypse. Despite…
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There’s More to Men Hating Television Shows Not About Men
New IMDb Study Shows Men Deflate Scores for Women’s Entertainment. Yesterday, our friends at Women and Hollywood highlighted a FiveThirtyEight article we’d missed about the…
