Month: October 2022
The Banshees of Inisherin: The charm of simple storytelling
by Matt Ward
So often movies must have big, grandiose stakes in order to appease a wide audience. They have global, if not universal consequences to the world filmmakers create, require massive budgets, large casts, intricate sets and visual effects to become cinematic blockbusters worthy of the big screen. The scale to which the average movie has expanded has drastically altered the landscape of modern filmmaking and … Read More The Banshees of Inisherin: The charm of simple storytelling
Tár: Measures of time
by Matt Ward
Time is a very precious and valuable thing. What we do with our time, how quickly or slowly life seems to go all feels set at a tempo that we conduct ourselves. It’s also at the core of acclaimed writer/director Todd Field’s first film in 16 years, a cerebral, cold, elongated portrait of a woman convinced that she has mastered time itself. Featuring one … Read More Tár: Measures of time
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A brew for the boys
by Matt Ward
What a filmmaker does after they win a Best Picture Academy Award is an incredibly important thing. It helps to define their future as a director, but also put into greater context their award-winning film as either fluke or part of a larger catalog of elite work. It usually takes several years, if not longer, to see a follow-up film from this caliber of … Read More The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A brew for the boys
Amsterdam: Nothing beneath the surface
by Matt Ward
What an absolute beautiful mess of a film. It’s probably the only real way to describe exactly what convoluted, unengaging yet exceptionally picturesque movie writer/director David O. Russell has made with a tremendously high budget, endlessly talented if often miscast group of actors and one of Hollywood’s best cinematographers at his disposal. The former Oscar nominee known for his sharp screenwriting and ability to … Read More Amsterdam: Nothing beneath the surface
Blonde: Cracks below the surface
by Matt Ward
The human mind is a fragile thing. For as much as we want to believe that we are capable of handling anything that life throws our way, it’s the trauma and mental anguish that goes untreated that often leads to our demise. This is very much at the core of writer/director Andrew Dominik’s latest film, an avant-garde fever dream odyssey that follows no rigid … Read More Blonde: Cracks below the surface
Cinematic Considerations 