Oscars: Production Design

The vision of a film needs to blend perfectly with how the director envisions it and how it actually looks. It is the responsibility of the production team to create and maintain the look and feel of the film. Until recently, this award was called Best Art Direction, but it excluded a lot of the […]

Victoria & Abdul – 2017

Queen Victoria is the second-longest reigning monarch in British history and as such she has over sixty years of stories that could be told. One of the more interesting stories is about her relationship with a young Muslim named Abdul, who became her personal teacher for the last years of her life. Judi Dench plays […]

Logan – 2017

It feels like Hugh Jackman has been Wolverine for his entire life. He played the character for seventeen years and he gave 100% every time. Logan is the grand finale for a character who has been around since the first X-Men film and without whom the series will definitely suffer. The beauty of Logan comes […]

The Sting – 1973

Paul Newman and Robert Redford are two of the finest actors ever, and they are rarely finer than when they appear together. One of the their finest and the finest overall is The Sting. The film follows a pair of con men who set out to con a crime lord out of an obscene amount […]

Strong Island – 2017

True crime is all the rage right now and no one seems to do it better than Netflix. Yance Ford asks a very simple question and executes it gracefully: what happened to my brother? For over twenty years she has lived with the fact that her brother was murdered and the man responsible never went […]

Skyfall – 2012

James Bond is an icon. Since his first appearance in Dr. No in 1962, he has been the gold standard for the spy film. There is a constant debate about who the best James Bond is. I don’t think that calling Daniel Craig the best Bond is fair, but denying his charisma and charm as […]