Great Recent Movies

With movie theaters closed and many productions halted worldwide, film fans are at a loss when it comes to new releases. In these times, many turn to streaming services as an outlet to watch old favorites, and these services have catalogs with an extensive number of films. It’s a better time than ever to give […]

With the announcement that production has begun on Pedro Almodóvar’s first foray into English filmmaking, fans and moviegoers are waiting excitedly to see how the director, whose films have helped define Spain’s international image, will express himself in another language. With language comes a mass of cultural context, which can sometimes seem impenetrable to outsiders. […]

It is often hard to predict what films will end up growing a cult following, as cult films emerge for different reasons. Some cult films, such as Clerks or Reservoir Dogs, emerged first among niche audiences before growing into mainstream successes, and some films, such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, have developed a cultural […]

It seems that now, more than ever before, it can be so easy to become pre-occupied and forget about those films we’ve really been wanting to see. It’s becoming tricker to keep up with what is and isn’t out, what’s available and what isn’t… but it’s alright as there are still more than enough quality […]

Not the score, not the sound effects or foley, but the sound design, what is it? We hear it when we watch a film and if done to par excellence, we don’t even notice it, it just adds to the cinematic experience. When it comes to sound design, we are talking about the overall mixing […]

Judging a movie solely by its Rotten Tomatoes score isn’t a great idea, but if you know how the Tomatometer works it can be easier to find out if a film is worth your time or not. Many people still don’t know that the Tomatometer score just represents the percent of critics who gave a […]