Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
Although the behind-the-scenes details are sketchy, we know that 2017’s Justice League, though credited to Zack Snyder as the director, was more of the direction that the studio wanted the franchise to go than...
Category: 2010s
Parasite (2019)
After two films done primarily in English in 2013’s Snowpiercer and the 2017 Netflix release Okja, Bong Joon-ho returns to purely Korean-language filmmaking for the first time since 2009 with his black comic satire, Parasite, arguably...
Little Women (2019)
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s much-beloved and oft-adapted novel of the same name, Little Women relates the story of the four March sisters, growing up in their humble existence in 19th Century Massachusetts. Greta Gerwig...
Uncut Gems (2019)
Edgy sibling filmmakers Benny and Joshua Safdie had their hearts set on making Uncut Gems shortly after the release of their acclaimed semiautobiographical 2009 dramedy Daddy Long Legs (aka Go Get Some Rosemary). It’s...
1917 (2019)
1917 takes place in Northern France amid the Great War. Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are two British soldiers commanded to carry orders from their General (Colin Firth) across No...
Ford v Ferrari (2019) | aka Le Mans ’66
James Mangold continues his string of choice character-driven dramas with Ford v. Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66 in most other parts of the world). This true story had been in Hollywood for decades before being made,...
Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
The Rise of Skywalker is a bit like the final season of “Game of Thrones”: it restlessly tries to tie up all of its loose ends in its finale without allowing for the proper...
The Irishman (2019)
The Irishman is a tale spun from the vantage point of an older man in a nursing home and displayed through a series of extended confessional flashbacks. Robert De Niro takes the lead role...
Dark Waters (2019)
Dark Waters is a film based on the true story of a corporate lawyer who ends up taking on DuPont Chemical. The origin of the screenplay originated from a Nathaniel Rich expose on attorney Rob...
Knives Out (2019)
Genre-hopping writer-director Rian Johnson has done a neo-noir teen flick in Brick, a family crime dramedy in The Brothers Bloom, a twisty time-travel sci-fi excursion in Looper. More famously, he also ushered in the...