By - Nick Adrian For fans of Martin Scorsese, Westerns, Indigenous stories Can you find the wolves in this picture? Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s latest feature, Killers of the Flower Moon, about a spineless war veteran (Leonardo DiCaprio) in the 1920s who follows his rich uncle’s (Robert De Niro) orders to marry into the Osage Native American tribe to inherit their oil money. To speed up the process, however, Hale […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of WWII history, Oliver Stone’s political conspiracy films, and of course - Christopher Nolan It seems like movie theaters are being taken my storm by this summer’s biggest craze: “Barbenheimer,” the double feature of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The latter, the much-anticipated biopic from one of the most successful auteurs working today, is the focus here and it’s not only the […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of Wes Anderson, 50s sci-fi, and Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoons There are only a few household name directors whose new film releases still feel like a major event, and Wes Anderson is a prime example. His unique and singular style (that’s been the source of inspiration for many a TikToker as of late - but don’t tell him that) only improves with each […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of All the President’s Men, Snowden, and conspiracy stories In 2017, former U.S. Air Force member and NSA translator Reality Winner was arrested for leaking an intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States Presidential Elections. Her interrogation, held and recorded by two FBI agents, R. Wallace Taylor and Justin C. Garrick was the basis for a 2019 stage play titled Is […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of The New York Dolls, 70s New York punk, concert films, music documentaries   You might know David Johansen as being the lead singer and founder of The New York Dolls, a proto-punk NYC band in the early 1970s that helped popularize back-to-basics rock ‘n’ roll and makeup-donned glam rock. Or you might know his alter ego, Buster Poindexter, who had a huge hit […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of Michael Jordan, basketball, feel-good movies, crowd pleasers Some films that are based on true stories are greatly anticipated. Some don’t quite seem like they have enough material to fill a film at all. Ben Affleck’s Air initially sounded like the latter to me and my own interest didn’t grow until I heard the unanimous praise behind it. I wondered how a movie centered […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of folk-horror, low budget 70s horror movies, experimental film What makes the majority of horror fiction (stories, books, films, television shows) work is the element of the unknown - the questions that arise, the paranoia, the uncertainty. It adds a level of anxiety in the listener/reader/viewer that isn’t typically accompanied with any other genre of story and it’s what excites horror fans the most. […]