Belated though it may be (due to conflicting professional and personal demands), here’s my list for the Best Movies of 2016. It begins with the Top 10, in ascending order, then continues with my 11 through 20 choices, and concludes with a brief listing of the other movies I really enjoyed throughout the year. Here [...]
UPDATED: 02/14/17, with new postscript. (SPOILERS to the ending of La La Land are discussed below. To read my full non-spoiler review, click here.) Despite being the choice du jour for film critics groups and musical-loving audiences, La La Land has an ending with the potential to be polarizing. I made a nod to this, cryptically, with two statements from my review, once [...]
This isn't a Top 10 list, but it's close. Through early and mid-December, fellow Tulsa Voice film critic Joe O'Shansky and I had an ongoing back-and-forth about where our heads and hearts were at in the middle of the year-end Awards screener season. We were considering many worthy contenders for that final 10. This is [...]
Attack of the Clones indeed. Coming out of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (my review), people are polarized over the use of CGI visual effects in one particular regard, and they’re making their opinions known across the interwebs in full, er, force. Of course I’m referring to the resurrection of Grand Moff Tarkin, played by [...]
Available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. Twenty-five years ago, a tale as old as time became timeless. Elevating what The Little Mermaid had revolutionized just two years prior, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast solidified the revival of not one but two dormant genres: the animated feature [...]
I’m not prone to marathons. Special theatrical franchise events or TV series binge watching just aren't my jams. I’m also not a Harry Potter diehard. I'm a fan; I’ve read the books and seen the films, but haven’t engaged either since seeing the last movie on its release five years ago. These aren’t stories I return to, [...]
God bless the YouTube channel "Every Frame a Painting", because they have just articulated one of my long-suffering soapboxes so perfectly well. In their 13-minute-plus video essay "The Marvel Symphonic Universe" (below), EFAP breaks down why - despite eight years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe dominating the movie industry - not one actual music cue has penetrated [...]
And the critics are hailing it. (You can read my review here.) Fresh off its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Hacksaw Ridge - the World War II movie that marks Mel Gibson's return to the director's chair after a 10-year absence - is now seeing its first reviews land online. The first big one came from the legendary [...]
Bored? Don't have anything to watch? Here's 100 suggestions by film critics and writers from around the world. The BBC just published a "100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century" list...or, well, the 100 best movies from a 15-year period (plus one from 2016 that sneaks in for the 3-way tie at #100). In that context it's [...]
One Month. 35 Movies. 30 Days (plus). Now updated with a 36th. 1 Incomparable Filmmaker. I've written about each and every feature film (plus one short) that Steven Spielberg has ever made. And now I rank them. To the extent that any list like this can have a logic to it, here's mine. I factor [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 