Eighth Grade Explore Awkwardness in the Social Media Generation

While Eighth Grade is a reminder that I don’t want to relive eighth grade, its success will hopefully herald more genuinely contemporary coming-of-age films.

Holmes & Watson (2018)

There’s no question Holmes & Watson is a bad film. Yet this isn’t as disastrous as you might have been led to believe.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

This is a different kind of New York film.

Aquaman (2018)

Aquaman really needed to be another Wonder Woman.

It’s not.

Vice Makes Political Corruption Fun

Vice makes contemporary politics fun and funny while underlining its monstrous corruption.

The Family-Friendly Films of the ‘80s Are Alive in Bumblebee

Bumblebee eschews the Escherian excess and all-out warfare of Michael Bay’s films for clean compositions and comparative spatial clarity.

Creed II (2018)

This is an underdog story with heart, as entertaining (if not as well-crafted) as Coogler’s predecessor.

Climax (2018)

Forget nu-Suspiria; Climax is the film of 2018 that truly gives itself over to the dance.

Giveaway: Win Double Passes to Overlord (and Merch!) [COMPLETED]

Thanks to Paramount Pictures Australia, ccpopculture has 5 double passes – and some merch! – to give away to Overlord, releasing in Australian cinemas Thursday December 6th.

Widows: The Genre Film That Isn’t

But Widows exhibits cosmetic similarities with the heist genre, it resolutely resists generic conventions.