Steven Soderbergh is back, baby. Well, he’s been back for quite a while, but let me explain. After a brief hiatus that he called a retirement in 2013 following the release of Behind the Candelabra, Soderbergh quickly made his return with Logan Lucky (Ocean’s Seven-Eleven if you’re nasty), a return to the heist genre that…
Kern: Like I mentioned in our previous In Conversation, I think between the two of us, we’ve been to a fair number of Q&As, so I wanted to really talk about some of the more interesting ones we’ve seen. So many of them are utterly forgettable. For instance the one we saw after The Report…
Henry: When this year started off with a trip over to the Netherlands for the Rotterdam Film Festival, getting to go to the BAFTA’s, and getting that accreditation for Cannes, all while finally having found the groove with the site, it seemed like it was about to be the best year for film yet. Then…
Most years, my top ten list would just be a list of the ten films I enjoyed the most or was thinking about when writing and I would hope a few people get something out of it, but in a weird year like this one, I figured I would take the opportunity to highlight a…
Kern: When we started the site and pitched ideas for columns, I decided to go with covering each film in the AFI Top 100. Finishing up watching every film on the list was already a project I’d been working on and I thought it was a great way, like your Best Picture column, to structure…
Henry: Seven years after he announced his retirement from directing films, Soderbergh remains one of the most prolific film directors with a new film this month, following hot on the heels of his two last year, and another already filmed and set for release in the near future, in addition to some five or six…
Kern: This week’s topic we want to discuss is franchises, but not just how we think of it in today’s terms of shared universes and whatnot, but more broadly. We’re bringing you in, Chris, because I know you take a particular interest in film franchises and series and I have to ask upfront: what about…
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Though we’re stuck inside and unable to go see new films in the cinema, it doesn’t mean discussion of film has to stop. Every week, Kern, Henry, and the occasional special guest will discuss some film related topic that’s been on our minds and transcribe our conversation here. Kern: I wanted to start this off…
10. The Tribe The Tribe remains one of the toughest viewing experiences I’ve ever endured. The Ukrainian drama follows a new arrival at a boarding school for deaf teenagers and his induction into a bleak world of crime. Though it unfolds entirely without dialogue and offers no subtitles to translate the sign language used, The…
Investigative journalism films directly appeal to me, mostly because I love movies about everyday people being good at what they do for a living – the first horse training sequence in The Rider brought me to tears, for instance. I was excited for The Report, because it bears most of the genre’s conventions, but also…
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