Posts Tagged ‘Richard Linklater’
Top 15 Films of 2025 – Allen’s Picks
2025 felt like a transitional year for the movies, a lot of which was not good. Several big screen legends left us, including (but not limited to) Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, and David Lynch. Of course, the industry is still in shock from the untimely passing…
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Film Review – Nouvelle Vague
The French New Wave has become such a milestone in the history of cinema that it risks being under appreciated. Take any film course and you’ll eventually arrive at it. It’s a major inflection point – we can see the change in filmmaking technique almost…
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Episode 127 – Avatar: The Way of Water & Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
For this week’s episode, we review the long-awaited blockbuster sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water by James Cameron and Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Also, for our streaming homework, we discuss Richard Linklater‘s animated love letter to 1960s suburban life, Apollo 10 1/2:…
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Film Review – Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood 
Writer/director Richard Linklater’s entire career has been marked by his obsession with the passing of time and how it feeds into our nostalgia. Whether it be nostalgia for high school (Dazed and Confused, 1993), college (Everybody Wants Some!!, 2016), romance (The Before Trilogy) or childhood itself…
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Film Review – The Trip to Greece
Who would’ve thought that a story about two middle aged friends going on a food tour around beautiful European locations would spawn a franchise? And yet here we are, returning again to watch Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan play fictional versions of themselves, bickering and…
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Episode 18 – Ready or Not and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
On this episode of the podcast, we give you a double-dose of horror-themed summer releases, with reviews of the children’s book adaptation Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and the hide and seek thriller Ready or Not. We also discuss the Disney/Sony Spider-Man debacle,…
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Film Review – Where’d You Go, Bernadette
I don’t know if Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019) is one of the worst films of the year, but it is definitely one of the most disappointing. It’s adapted by Maria Semple’s bestselling novel, directed and cowritten by Richard Linklater – creator of Slacker (1990)…
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Film Review – Mid90s
Jonah Hill’s feature length debut as writer and director – Mid90s (2018) – has a great affection for the timeframe it’s set in. As the title suggests, Hill takes us back to Los Angeles in the middle of the 1990s, amongst the youth that spends…
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