Article by: Josh Bradley You’ve been waiting for this moment. You heard about a weird movie at Sundance that people were walking out of. A movie where Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse. You saw plenty of clickbait-y headlines in January saying as much. You thought it was crazy that a movie like

Article by: Josh Bradley   When Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film, The Neon Demon (2016), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month, there were reports of both standing ovations and loud boos. Having seen it… yeah, that sounds about right. Fresh-faced Jesse (Elle Fanning) has just arrived in Los Angeles to try her

Article by: Josh Bradley   Whoever said “They don’t make them like they used to” forgot to tell Shane Black. His new film, The Nice Guys (2016), is both a throwback to summer blockbusters of yesteryear and also definitively a modern Shane Black film. In 1977 Los Angeles, private detective Holland March (Ryan

Article by: Josh Bradley   By now, most people know exactly what to expect from a Richard Linklater film. To the uninitiated, let me sum it up: little-to-no plot, lots and lots of fun dialogue from fun characters that is at times pseudo-philosophical but often borders on profundity, and an emphasis on

Article by: Josh Bradley Most of the nominees for Best Picture are fairly easy to sell. A lot of them have well-known directors and stars (Bridge of Spies, The Revenant, The Martian); they're sequels to well-known movies or based on well-known news stories (Spotlight, The Big Short, Mad Max: Fury Road); even the small indie drama

Article by: Josh Bradley Before this year, writer/director Tom McCarthy had been something of a well-kept secret. His first three films all premiered at Sundance and were quietly well-received. His debut, The Station Agent (2003), and his follow-up, The Visitor (2007), both got some love from the Independent Spirit Awards, the

Article by: Josh Bradley With the current slew of articles and discussions of the “Most Anticipated Movies of 2016” popping up, one might think that the only movies coming out this year are comic book/video game adaptations, franchise sequels, and reboots. And while there are certainly plenty of those, I feel