“…despite how male-dominated the mines were…the miner’s labor movement in Harlan County was driven by women. ‘Harlan County USA’, helmed, produced, shot, and edited by women, naturally reflects this femininity. Without overcompensation or hyperbole, Kopple spotlights the Kentucky women who served as both the backbone and frontline of the labor movement.”
Read More“[The Fast & the Furious] layered all the characters and their interpersonal conflicts well enough for the viewer to still care about the characters and not just the cars; it’s not about the cars, it’s about who’s behind the wheel.”
Read More“It is a myth spun so perfectly, so beautifully, one could not help but be swept up by it.”
Read More“Gruesome as it is, Hardcore Henry’s memorability comes from essentially being a live-action episode of Looney Tunes...It’s pure cinematic nutcasery, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Read MoreThe Odyssey, Dune: Part Three, The Drama, Mother Mary, and The Bride! are most definitely at the top of my watchlist, but here are a few others you may have not heard about that you should want to keep an eye out for.
Read More“…the final product is a film that has dominated conversations at film festivals and in award season considerations.”
Read More“25th Hour is one of Spike Lee's most moving films. It's thematically complex and still holds up 23 years later.”
Read More“It might be the least Spike Lee Spike Lee film, but he and cinematographer Matthew Libatique make sure that it is still very much a Spike Lee film at least in tone and feel.”
Read More“…Lee wants us considering the ripple effects that these cold-blooded killings have on a hyper-proud, hyper-macho and fiercely tight-knit community…”
Read More“Bamboozled doesn’t work today because its satire was strictly true in 2000. It works because it’s still true today.”
Read More“The details are so particular and unique, ‘Crooklyn’ becomes immediately and infectiously transportive; it’s a step back in time in film-form.”
Read More“Both a point A and a point B exist in Dead Man […] but Jarmusch’s filmmaking is not concerned with hooking us on the straight line between the two.”
Read MoreLet’s take a look at what the ForReel team thinks will happen come Oscar night!
Read More“… while the first half of the film is all about building, what the film's second half…made clear to me is that The Brutalist may be devoted to showing us construction, but it's about the counterfactual: The Brutalist is a story of desecration, in fear and in reality.”
Read MoreHere are 7 films streaming virtually that you should make time to see.
Read MoreAs an autumn treat, here are ten underseen Spooky Season movies for you to check out this month.
Read More“Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great auteurs of cinema, but sometimes with auteur theory we lose sight of how much of a collaborative process filmmaking is.”
Read More“What matters in a film like Twister is brisk pacing, helicopter shots, industrial fans, and (at the time) state-of-the-art visual effects. The simplicity is key.”
Read More“The fact that queerness is mentioned in the same breath as Satan says a lot about how homophobia is generated in America…But rather than beating homophobic stereotypes, [Gregg Akari’s] characters embrace them.”
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