88th Academy Awards

In 1979, director George Miller gave audiences a film unlike anyone had ever seen before: the post-apocalyptic action thriller Mad Max. This was the film that not only mad Mel Gibson a star, but it revolutionized a majority of the stunt work seen in the car chases of most modern movies. However, as technology has advanced over the years, some filmmakers have become lazy and have relied far too mu...

You know you’re in for something special when the title of the film appears only after 14 minutes. Italian Academy-award winning director Paolo Sorrentino has created something stunning and magical with his latest film, Youth. Centered around two old friends: a classical composer and a filmmaker, this extraordinary European film is one which is incredulously receiving almost no attention despite it...

Quentin Tarantino, despite his sometimes rowdy, loud-mouthed personality, is one of those rare filmmakers whose skills as a writer are equally brilliant to his skills as a director. As with all his films, regardless of the strength of the plot, the standout element is the dialogue between characters and Tarantino’s unique ability to tell a story. There are a lot of negative things that can be ...

Amidst the many huge, big-name movies to come out this winter, there is one slightly obscure stop-motion animation film by the name of Anomalisa that is arguably the most tender and tear-rendering American movie of the year. Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, this peculiar romance possesses every emotion that movies in 2015 were largely unable to produce. At the center of th...

Alejandro González Iñárritu. Remember this name. The Mexican writer/director/producer stormed through the awards circuit last year with his dramatic comedy Birdman, winning the Oscar for best picture, directing, original screenplay and cinematography. Just a year later, he’s thrusting himself back into the heat of the competition with his breathtaking epic, The Revenant. Starting with a limit...

Since 1977, Star Wars has been the well-known sci-fi series that never seems to die out. From The Phantom Menace all the way to The Return of the Jedi, creator George Lucas never failed to go beyond our imagination. It has been a decade since Revenge of the Sith, the last filming of the Star Wars series. This past year, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures decided to produce the seventh Star Wars...

The Rocky franchise is one that has seen its ups and downs throughout its six-film saga. The first one is a bonafide classic which won best picture back in 1977, as well as receiving best actor and screenplay nominations for Sylvester Stallone. The sequels never managed to match their predecessor’s excellence, as they provided moderate entertainment, but were all quite silly and underwhelming. With ...

Whether it’s a grand-scale adventure like Gladiator or a more contained one like Alien, director Ridley Scott knows how to craft incredibly suspenseful works of cinema. However, as of late, the 77 year-old filmmaker has lost his touch with age, and it’s been shown in some of his recent efforts such as Exodus: Gods and Kings and Prometheus, which were quite weak. With that said, Scott ends up l...

  With only three films under his belt, Denis Villeneuve has proven himself to be a masterclass filmmaker, as each of his efforts have been relatively different from one another. He made a dower, contained thriller with Prisoners and more baffling, strange thriller with Enemy. Now,as his third film Sicario comes, he makes yet another taut thriller, this one more grimy and rough. Opening limited on...