I got the chance to see a screening of The Bikeriders this week ahead of its wide release this weekend, and the film was a beautiful, real snapshot in time of an era that came and went 50 years ago.
Note: This review was initially a part of our coverage of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It has been updated to note the passage of time. A woman and a teenager stand at a creek bed, the elder smoking and relic hunting, the younger…
Jeff Nichols has made movies on apocalyptic visions, a historic Supreme Court case on racial injustice, and a boy with superhuman abilities. And yet, it’s The Bikeriders, a 1960s slice of life about an infamous motorcycle club, that is…
There are a lot of bad comedies about, and supposedly for, senior citizens. It's especially depressing because the worst offenders, the ones that don't just feel cheap and lazy but exploitative too, often feature our finest actors. They…
I Used to Be Funny (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Ally Pankiw and starring Rachel Sennott, Olga Petsa, Jason Jones, Sabrina Jalees, Caleb Hearon, Ennis Esmer, Dani Kind, Dan Beirne, Miguel Rivas, Marvin Kaye, Paloma…
How often does a film come along that you can comfortably recommend to literally everyone in your life? Not often enough. For that reason alone, Thelma deserves to be celebrated. It may not seem like the most obvious summer blockbuster,…
Among the first things we see in The Bikeriders is Benny’s jacket. Posted up at a dusty Chicago dive bar, back to camera, Benny (Austin Butler in a movie star performance that proves Elvis was no fluke) sips his whiskey and smokes his…
De nieuwste LEGO The Lord of the Rings: Barad-dûr set springt direct in het oog. Het is een bijzonder imposant bouwwerk dat nog groter oogt dan het daadwerkelijk is. Daarnaast is het een ode aan het bronmateriaal, zowel voor liefhebbers…
Some two decades ago, the writer-director Jeff Nichols (“Take Shelter,” “Mud,” “Loving”) picked up a copy of Danny Lyon’s 1967 book titled “The Bikeriders,” which focused on the Outlaws Motorcycle Club that was founded in southwest…
“Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme” centers on an immensely interesting subject — financial fraudster and D-List actor Zach Horowitz, a.k.a. Zach Avery — but ends up telling his tale in uninteresting ways. The film draws its various…
Beacon (2024) Film Review from the 23rd Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Roxy Shih, written by Julio Rojas and starring Demián Bichir and Julia Goldani Telles.
While the film’s title is only strictly relevant to its opening scene — in which a TV news station films a made-up hybrid sport — the understated Russian-language drama “Bikechess” captures the absurdities of working within propagandist…
The key to being a great exploitation filmmaker is figure out how to alter an already released film in order to exploit a new development. There were a lot of films that changed titles to exploit a headline or trend. When Homework was…