Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way into existence. “Seven Samurai,” made in Japan in the early 1950s, was by far the most expensive film then made in the country. And it required the longest … Read more
To be a director is to be a madman of sorts. It’s a rare artist that has the will and belief required to pull together so many forces to create a movie, let alone a good or even great one. In other words, it’s a space only occupied, perhaps, by the delusional or self-involved. “Cobweb,” … Read more
PARK CITY, Utah — The movie “Cat Person,” which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, should be called “Camp Person.” Because gone is the deceptively simple, resonant, viral New Yorker short story about the pitfalls of dating in the age of the internet that touched a cultural nerve in 2017, and in its place … Read more
Come on, Barbie, let’s go party! The first teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated “Barbie” movie has officially been released by Warner Bros. and fans are calling it a “cinematic masterpiece.” The trailer opens up with a dark scene — which is scored to Richard Strauss’ ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’ and appears to be a callback to the … Read more