“Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith first. The trust part comes later.” Going into Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, I, of course, like everyone else, was expecting this to be the greatest movie ever made. Or at least the best superhero movie ever…

“Everything comes from the east – the sun, the wind, and Kon-Tiki” The problem with theorizing as a historian is that most of history is already in the books. To disprove a current theory with another new theory, is well, you know, too much theorizing; most publishers…

“Honey, in gay years you’re Judy during the Sid Luft obese period.” Liberace! OK well, you might have never heard of him if you’re not over 35, but in case you didn’t know the name (Władziu Valentino Liberace), he was a world renowned piano player…

“There’s no time in the woods…” Oh to be fifteen again. Living at your parents place, feeling old but still so desperately young, doing anything to rebel what the ol’ folks say—even if it is just sneaking out your window to booze it up with…

When Kodak filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy last year it was a crucial moment for the digital paradigm in production, leaving movie-makers who prefer actual film left in somewhat of a discrepancy: why should they have to sacrifice for a digitalized product? Oh yeah, because…

Blood. Margarine. Tears. Seduction. All in an episode’s work! “The Better Half,” was an unexpectedly morbid hour of shenanigans. I mean, never would I have taken Peggy for a murderer (kidding, of course), and since when is Betty the center of attention? And does the market…

I. Love. Greta. Gerwig. She stole my heart in Greenberg, where like Frances Ha, she plays an awkward, funny 20-something. And in her latest collaboration with director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale), whom she actually wrote the screenplay with, her one-of-a-kind quirk has never…

Before I ramble on about The Iceman, let me just preface that I had absolutely no idea what this movie was about upon stepping foot in the theater. So when it finally dawned on me that this was in fact a true story, about a man who hid…

“You think your world is safe, it is an illusion.” Is it possible to produce a better film than JJ Abrams’ first Star Trek? Well apparently not, because Star Trek Into Darkness proved to be just another one of those franchise-y attempts to keep the…

“Never take your eyes off the bull.” Remember how The Artist stole the show at 2011’s Oscars unexpectedly? You know, the little indie that could that looked like it was straight out of the 1900s? Of course you do! Because it was phenomenal, and unexpected;…