We’re spending the month of December looking back at some of the great new releases that we missed out on reviewing earlier this year. This is The Rest of 2014. To say there’s something of a stigma when it comes to femininity in pop music is Read More …
We’re spending the month of December looking back at some of the great new releases that we missed out on reviewing earlier this year. This is The Rest of 2014. There’s a certain kind of indie film I tend to avoid, and based solely on what Read More …
In Foxcatcher, Capote helmer Bennett Miller doesn’t stray far from the style employed in his debut: efficient storytelling helped along by a somewhat reserved sense of direction. He continues to be a filmmaker unafraid to let his audience put two and two together. Whole scenes unravel Read More …
Remember renting movies? Not through your cable box or on iTunes. Legit tossing on sweatpants and going to Blockbuster and walking around for forty-five minutes until you ended up walking out with A Civil Action, The Big Hit, and Universal Soldier because they were all Read More …
There’s never been a better excuse to watch as many noir films as humanly possible than the cinephile community’s current favorite portmanteau. Deadshirt has decided to throw in with a month of essays highlighting some of our favorite works in the pantheon for Noirvember… In cinema, noir Read More …
As a society, we love a bit of schadenfreude. Whenever a popular, beloved filmmaker is on a hot streak, it becomes a waiting game to see when he’s going to fall off. Christopher Nolan has had the good fortune of ascending from a no-budget indie Read More …
A lot of reviews you’re going to see this week for Theophilus London’s new studio release will probably talk about Kanye West. A lot. This is London’s own damn fault. Yeezus is listed as an executive producer on Vibes, taking time out from working on Read More …
The premise of Birdman is such that autobiographical suppositions are pretty unavoidable. Michael Keaton plays washed up movie star Riggan Thomson, an actor most known for playing the superhero Birdman. He’s trying to mount a Raymond Carver adaptation on Broadway he penned himself (and is starring Read More …
FADE IN: INT. FILM STUDIO – DAY A disgruntled EXEC sits across a table from two hipster-looking WRITERS. EXEC: That’s it? A kid’s dog dies and comes back to life to help him get a date to prom? That’s your movie? WRITER 1: Yeah, we Read More …
This October, Deadshirt staff revisits some of our favorite horror movies from a variety of subgenres and breaks down what makes them so memorable, so clever, and so terrifying. This week: Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s post modern slasher, Scream. When the Weinstein Brothers originally Read More …