In the hilarious indie film The Rumperbutts, Bonnie and Jack, a married couple and indie band (played by Mates of State’s also-married duo Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner), regretfully accept a job on a children’s show of the same name. Despite money and success, their relationship turns to resentment and disaster, until one evening, a magical…
There are a lot of elements that make a zombie film thrilling: characters and relationships we care deeply about, a true sense of survivalism, trendsetting cinematography and makeup, etc. Train to Busan, a South Korean film directed by Yeon Sang-ho, has all of these and more. In fact, Busan does so many things right that we…
This story was originally posted on Stop & Smell the Roses! Despite our presumed differences, it’s safe to say that we’re all looking for that elusive “something” that makes us feel complete. Our specific pursuits are irrelevant when we stop to consider that, deep down, we’re all desperate to find meaning in a world that…
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is about racism and social injustices, but not of the Nazi, alt-right variety. Rather, his film Get Out focuses on the ways middle-class white liberals act and the things they say that in turn make black people feel so uncomfortable. From the “I would’ve voted for Obama a third time if…
Last night’s Oscars snafu was the ultimate live TV moment in a rather conservative broadcast. In a jaw-dropping fuck-up of epic proportions, the wrong envelope ended up in the hands of Bonnie and Clyde stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Holding the actual envelope for the previously announced Best Actress category, Beatty stalled before passing the envelope…
After wrapping up my quest of watching all 88 Best Picture winners in the history of the Academy Awards, some have asked me what my favorites were, and damn, is that hard. I procrastinated by first writing about my top 10 least favorite, because really, there’s nothing more fun than trashing things and lighting them on fire. Choosing a top 10 here is…
The 89th annual Academy Awards air Sunday and there is a 100% chance that I’m getting totally Oscar-drunk. (Thinking boxed wine because I’m obviously all class.) To celebrate this year’s fanciest of events, TLW is counting down the worst of the best (pictures), commiserating on the amount of time I actually spent watching these horrid…
Epic Film Quest: Completed. I’ve been waiting years to write those very words. After countless long nights and many trapped-in snow days, it is done. I spent hours and hours with Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, Vivien Leigh, and more. I visited almost all of the wars in history, I took part in Manifest…
Sorry, Don Corleone, but it’s true. And you know what? It destroys Casablanca, too. And Ben-Hur. Citizen Kane? Fuck, Citizen Kane. Sing Street is here, and all these movies mean NOTHING to me. The year is 1985 in South Dublin, Ireland. Conor, a 15-year-old student, learns that his parents’ finances have changed and in order to save money,…
When Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures was released it immediately hit number one at the box office, banking a sizable $22.8 million, and surpassing Rouge One: A Star Wars Story by nearly a million dollars. Even more remarkable was that Figures, a story about the black female mathematicians and physicists who worked for NASA in the…