Tye Sheridan
A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
At once a period piece and a coming-of-age odyssey wrapped around a bizarre narrative about an antiquated medical treatment, The Mountain is Alverson’s finest film.
Westerns are brilliant because, like all great genres, they possess a wealth of contrast; while…
It’s received a fair amount of negative response for its allegiance to the cinematic canon, but The Yellow Birds is more than the sum of other films’ parts and makes for a worthwhile adventure.
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is a truly exhilarating visual experience and a thrilling ode to pop culture. Spielberg’s control of the camera and expertise in crafting an action sequence is nonpareil, ultimately making the film the greatest movie to see in 3D since Avatar.
Comedy is a tricky thing; it’s hyper-subjective and typically draws from dark elements to create laughter. The search for one’s own comedy is thus, in a sense, the result of grappling some of the least desirable aspects of the human experience and wrangling it into something with a punchline. This is why the cliché of the “sad clown” is so prevalent and continues to be perpetuated to this day, such as with Marc Maron’s self-loathing diatribes and the tag posthumously attributed to Robin Williams.