After “Cure,” “Pulse,” “Cloud,” and “Chime,” I thought I had a pretty good handle on what a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie looked like. If you’ve…
Author: Nathan Flynn
There’s a moment early in “Spider-Man 2” that explains almost everything Sam Raimi understands about Spider-Man. Peter Parker is racing across New…
David Wain has always approached genre parody with an unusual mixture of half-affection and half-contempt. “Wet Hot American Summer” took the language…
The remarkable thing about Pixar’s recent output is that the studio finally seems interested in wrestling with big ideas again.…
It’s hard to watch “Supergirl” and not feel like you’re attending a wake. Not for superhero movies themselves. Batman and…
The release of Michael Sarnoski’s “The Death of Robin Hood” got me thinking about the strange cinematic legacy of England’s…
For the first time since “War of the Worlds,” Steven Spielberg has made a movie that feels fully planted in…
Memories are a tricky thing. I’ve had moments in my life that I felt certain I would never forget, only…
There’s a certain kind of movie that doesn’t really get made anymore—mid-budget, adult, crime-adjacent, full of movie stars who are…
As a huge fan of genre hybrids and a big fan of BenDavid Gabrinski’s writing one of my more anticipated…
