Looking back at Jesse Eisenberg’s Directing Debut, ‘When You Finish Saving the World’
Looking back at When You Finish Saving the World, Jesse Eisenberg’s debut feature, it’s clear why he chose to adapt his 2019 audiobook into a full-length film. Produced by A24, the movie is carried by Julianne Moore (Evelyn) and Finn Wolfhard (Ziggy), who play a...
How 1960s International Films Transformed Global Cinema
The climate for film in the 1960s was burgeoning worldwide as the aftermath of World War II drew to a close. This new wave of young filmmakers, eager to get behind the camera, created a raw sensibility that elevated cinema-making into an art form. In Hollywood,...
‘Unlocked’: The Ominous Cyber Flick About the True Horrors of Our Phones
In the age of overwhelming technology, cell phones have become a tool so integrated into everybody’s lives that they seem necessary for many to perform their daily tasks. Instant communication, reading news, paying bills, and GPS are some of those tasks that...
‘The Roses’ Turns Marriage into Mayhem with Cumberbatch & Colman’s Comic Battle
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman headline Jay Roach’s unexpectedly explosive satire, mixing razor-sharp British wit with uproarious American chaos. It takes a certain kind of nerve to reimagine Warren Adler’s “The War of ‘The Roses’”, a novel already...
