Dumbo Review: Nothing to See Here, Folks
Author: Cameron Fairchild Header Photo: 2018 Disney Enterprises, Inc. So the Jungle Book was a forgettable mess? Fine. Beauty and the Beast couldn’t help but add a magic teleporting...
Joining the Cult Special Edition: I Can’t Feel My Face but Kingdom Hearts III Finally Came Out
Author: Cameron Fairchild “What if it’s not everything I dreamed it would be?” “It will be.” “And what if it is? What do I do then?” “Well, that’s the...
Joining the Cult: Investigating The Keep, Michael Mann’s Butchered Nazi Horror Film
Author: Cameron Fairchild Usually, when someone tells you a Michael Mann movie is bad, they’re wrong. While the 75-year-old filmmaker’s career has taken something of a critical nosedive in...
The Best Films of 2018
Author: Cameron Fairchild BEST FILM/FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM In a year where popular American cinema turned fascinatingly, excitingly away from dominant white, straight, narratives and became ever-more critical of the institutions...
Why Roma Didn’t Work For Me
Author: Cameron Fairchild All photos © Netflix The first thing we see is the ground. As the opening credits roll, water from our protagonist Cleo’s (Yalitza Aparicio) bucket washes...
Joining the Cult: On Flaming Creatures, the Queer, Experimental Film that Got Arrested
Author: Cameron Fairchild Welcome back to Joining the Cult, an exploration of the weird, the underground, and the experimental. While in the past this column has specifically focused on...
Ralph Breaks the Internet is a Spotty but Heartfelt Interrogation of the Internet Age
Author: Cameron Fairchild © 2018 – Walt Disney Studios If there’s one thing Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, understands about the Internet, it’s that...
The Excellent Widows is a Kinetic Meditation on Capitalism and Survival
Author: Cameron Fairchild Header photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox The question “How are you going to make money?” is asked several times throughout Widows, and in Steve McQueen’s...
The Epic Oslo Gracefully Explores the Human Side of History
Author: Cameron Fairchild The Oslo Peace Accords, the result of a series of covert Norwegian summits between leaders on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, were a failure. Two...
“The Incredibles 2” is the Best Superhero Reunion of the Year
Before The Incredibles 2 begins, a short documentary plays, with the cast and crew of the film explaining and apologizing for the 14 year gap between 2004’s The Incredibles and...