The Planet of the Apes film franchise consists of, to date, eight films released between 1968 and 2014. Each week, venerable Apes mega-fan Max Robinson and inquisitive newcomer Dylan Roth journey to the center of the Planet of the Apes experience, one movie at a Read More …
Hail, Caesar! is two movies that are really one movie: the Coen Brothers film Hail, Caesar! that you the viewer are watching, and Capitol Pictures’ troubled prestige picture Hail, Caesar!. The blurred line between the film and the golden age of Hollywood film-within-a-film is immediate and obvious, placed Read More …
The Planet of the Apes film franchise consists of, to date, eight films released between 1968 and 2014. Each week, venerable Apes mega-fan Max Robinson and inquisitive relative newcomer Dylan Roth journey to the center of the Planet of the Apes experience, one movie at a time. This is Turn Around, Bright Eyes. Battle for the Planet Read More …
By Robby Karol Miller’s Crossing has always ranked neck-and-neck with The Big Lebowski as my favorite Coen Brothers film. And I think part of that is how both of them take a sideways approach to two of my favorite writers, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. If The Big Read More …
The Planet of the Apes film franchise consists of, to date, eight films released between 1968 and 2014. Eachweek, venerable Apes mega-fan Max Robinson and inquisitive relative newcomer Dylan Roth journey to the center of the Planet of the Apes experience, one movie at a time. This is Turn Around, Bright Eyes. Conquest of the Planet Read More …
2012’s Django Unchained is the most commercially successful of Quentin Tarantino’s films. A big part of why moviegoers responded to Django so strongly, I think, is that it’s the first time Tarantino opts for more traditional Hero’s Journey storytelling elements. Django Unchained is an homage, Read More …
The Planet of the Apes film franchise consists of, to date, eight films released between 1968 and 2014. Each week, venerable Apes mega-fan Max Robinson and inquisitive newcomer Dylan Roth journey to the center of the Planet of the Apes experience, one movie at a Read More …
By Robby Karol In all of the back and forth “hot takes” fan theories and plot hole discussions, there’s been no discussion of how Star Wars: The Force Awakens has, as subtext, a discussion of the difficulty of constructing a non-Lucas Star Wars movie. Just as Read More …
How incredibly fitting it is that in True Romance, the Quentin Tarantino-scripted crime thriller, true love is found at the movies. After unsuccessfully trying to pick-up a hot blonde at a bar, comic store clerk Clarence (Christian Slater) prepares to celebrate his birthday alone at Read More …
It’s been 22 years since Pulp Fiction made Quentin Tarantino a household name. If you were to pile the misbegotten films that sought to recreate a severe misreading of the “Tarantino formula” in the time that’s passed, you could climb it all the way to Read More …