By Bradley Lane While it might be hard to believe now after four decades of pop-culture relevance and billions of dollars generated over those years, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started their life as a […]
By Bradley Lane Kirsten Johnson has been a cinematographer for documentary films for nearly 30 years and just recently began to direct films herself in 2016 with her debut feature film, Cameraperson. This was a […]
By Bradley Lane Modern horror has seen a resurgence in both popularity and quality over the last decade or so, and no studio is more responsible in spearheading this effort than A24. Whenever the company […]
By Bradley Lane The story of Little Women is over 150 years old at this point, so it might stand to reason the story could be thought of as outdated or inapplicable to today’s more […]
By Bradley Lane Discerning filmgoers will notice that in recent years the volume of large-scale studio comedy films has dramatically decreased. What was once a goldmine for the studio system in the early to mid-2000s […]
By Bradley Lane Wes Anderson is one of the most identifiable film directors of all time. His films adhere tightly to a very idiosyncratic set of aesthetic and tonal markers. Symmetrical framing, insert shots, pastel […]
By Bradley Lane Robert Eggers cut his teeth on ultra-historically accurate low-budget genre art films. A ridiculously specific niche if ever there was one, now Eggers is at the helm of a $90 million historical […]
By Bradley Lane It has been 13 years since Avatar was released in theaters and became the most successful film of all time. In the time between then and now a lot has changed in […]
By Bradley Lane Tony Scott’s original Top Gun (1986) is an OK film. The scope of the film is very limited by the technology of the era in which it was made, and despite its […]
By Bradley Lane A live action film based on the massively popular Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game has been in the works for nearly a decade. This lengthy development period included a lawsuit over […]