By Bradley Lane The trailer for Barbarian might be the best of the year. It is a textbook example of showing only enough footage to
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Over the Garden Wall
By Bradley Lane The dominant understanding of animation is that the medium exists in two distinct forms based on the work’s target audience. Children’s entertainment
The Northman
By Bradley Lane Robert Eggers cut his teeth on ultra-historically accurate low-budget genre art films. A ridiculously specific niche if ever there was one, now
Thor: Love and Thunder
By Bradley Lane I do not want to sound harsh when I assert that Marvel films are designed as products rather than as films. Plenty
The French Dispatch
By Bradley Lane It’s hard enough to write a good script in a consistent voice but a cohesive screenplay comprised of the voices of its
The 400 Blows
By Bradley Lane Increasingly in the age of streaming, the services providing films and television to consumers are shifting their focus from obtaining pre-existing content