“The Vast of Night” Film Review: Shooting for the Stars

The Vast of Night (2020) is an indie sci-fi from debut filmmaker Andrew Patterson and writers James Montague and Craig W. Sanger. It stars Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz as two small-town teens who investigate strange audio frequencies coming in over the radio airwaves. The film debuted at the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, and was finally released on Amazon Prime this weekend. Is it worth the hype?

Best Picture Through the Decades: 1950’s

Welcome to yet another installment of my Best Picture Oscar winners’ retrospective! Today we move the calendar back another decade to the 1950s to examine how well the Academy Awards’ top honors hold up today. Will we discover any hidden gems, or have some of these films been lost to history for a reason? Join me and let’s find out together!

Top 10 Most Overlooked Films of the Last Decade

As a counterbalance to my previous post, I want to do the opposite and talk about some films that DIDN’T get much public recognition but really should have. These are the hidden gems that have slipped through the cracks, the forgotten flicks that should have been remembered alongside their Oscar-nominated kin. Here are the 10 most overlooked films of the 2010’s!

Top 10 Most Overrated Films of the Last Decade

The 2010’s were overall a strong decade for cinema, with a wide range of films for many different types of audiences to enjoy. But as we all know, there is an objective right and wrong answer to what constitutes a good movie, and if you like a movie that I don’t, it means you’re wrong and stupid. So what better way to celebrate a great decade than by making everyone angry and imposing my own film views on everyone else? Let’s look at the top ten films I believe are waaaay too praised in cinephile circles!

Foreign Film Fridays: “Les Misérables” (France, 2019)

Les Misérables (2019) is the debut feature of French filmmaker Ladj Ly and the official French entry for the Academy Award for Best International Film. It tells the story of a group of young Parisians who join the Anti-Crime Brigade and find themselves at the epicenter of tensions within the city between conflicting groups. The film infamously took the place of festival favorite Portrait of a Lady on Fire as France’s Oscar entry, causing some to immediately criticize the film for no reason. Was it worthy of its nomination, or should it have been Celine Sciamma’s romance in its place?