After some time away from the director’s chair, Swanberg is back with The Sun Never Sets, a film that upholds all of his traditions but through a more mature, experienced lens.
It’s feeling humid. It’s feeling like summer is very nearly upon us. That of course, means it’s time for us to reconvene for our second annual summer box office draft. With the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 this past weekend, the summer movie season is now in full swing. We are here today to try […]
Chili Finger
tells the story of a woman (Judy Greer) who tries to blackmail a major restaurant chain after discovering a finger in her bowl of chili.
Twenty years later, “Mission: Impossible III” is special, setting itself apart from the rest of the franchise by humanizing Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. It’s always been a matter of trust.
Starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley, ‘Deep Water’ is a welcome return for Renny Harlin, even if his edgy, biting sensibilities are dulled out.
Happy May the 4th week! Today, in continuing with Season 6 of RETRO//RANKED, we’re launching into the final era of our Star Wars season. We’ve journeyed through the originals and the prequels, and now we’ve reached our final destination to start the sequels with The Force Awakens, joined by the 2008 theatrically released animated film The Clone Wars as we […]
Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm, a new family-friendly adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, is one of the most despicable movies ever made.
In honor of The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re hosting a special edition Awards Draft centered entirely on the incomparable Meryl Streep. Streep’s legacy is completely singular with a generations spanning career that emphasized her versatility as an actress going back to 1975. For many of us, Streep is the gold standard for prestige performances, particularly […]
From the opening moments of If I Go Will They Miss Me, it’s clear that writer-director Walter Thompson Hernández is more than just a filmmaker. He is a poet, and his feature debut is equal parts a sprawling odyssey of mythic proportions and a soft couplet scribbled in the margins.
Matt Damon leads a new ‘The Odyssey’ trailer that promises an emotional journey on a scale larger than Christopher Nolan has ever gone before.
On Olivia Wilde’s third directorial outing, The Invite, an adaptation of the Spanish film Sentimental (2020), she scales back to a more contained, intimate story but delivers her most confident and most stylish effort yet.
The millennial nostalgia is real today as we break out the florals for spring in David Frankel’s return to the world of Runway magazine and high editorial fashion in The Devil Wears Prada 2. We review the film as well as discuss the career of the film’s iconic lead, Anne Hathaway who is in the midst […]
It’s an ensemble party movie with 75 characters, but 14 main characters. So we probably should have thought that challenge through a little more, but we never would have made the movie if we thought about it too much, so no regrets in that sense. We knew we wanted to make something together, write something […]
Apologies everyone, there’s been a slight shift in programming. Hayden Christensen backed out of his guest spot for this episode. He told us he was down to make a guest appearance, but sent a text backing out at the last second saying, “I don’t like podcasts. They’re long and rough and irritating, and they get […]
RETRO//RECAP is a spin-off series from RETRO//RANKED where we hit pause on the rankings and rewind the tape to catch you up on everything that’s happened in a franchise or filmography before the next entry hits theaters. Last time, we dove into the Scream franchise, but today we’re trading in the knives for Dolce & Gabbana in the […]
