Top 20 Films of 2021 (and 9 Disappointments)

Top 20 Films of 2021 (and 9 Disappointments)

  Heading warily into 2021, I wasn’t a confident moviegoer. After all, 2020 had been a cinematic wipeout thanks to the global pandemic and its resulting quarantines. But as cinemas gradually re-opened, and I committed myself to attending as regularly (and...
Review: Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Review: Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

To a jarring Vangelis crash, Blade Runner opens upon a spectacularly grimy and fiery cityscape teeming with majestic Spinner cars, dully gleaming towers, and poisonous clouds. The Tyrell Corporation can be glimpsed in the dreary distance. An Orwellian eye watches over...