Some films are just ripped from the headlines, but in the case of the new political thriller Anniversary, it appears that this story of an authoritarian government and one-party system taking over America has simply stumbled coincidentally on to the headlines blazing daily about the ever-evolving threat to our democracy. That said, at its heart…
Spoiler alert: The following article discusses the entirety of The Threesome. From Oh, Hi to Materialists, there’s no shortage of recently released small-to-mid-budget movies excoriating the trials and tribulations of what the modern dating landscape looks like for young people. But where these movies lean into effective satire, Chad Hartigan’s The Threesome blends comedic beats…
In 1983, Jim McBride attempted an English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard‘s 1959 cinema landmark, Breathless with Richard Gere. It broke one of Godard’s cardinal rules: It was in color. Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the…