Film Review: Mudbound (dir by Dee Rees)
In Mudbound, Jonathan Banks plays one of the most hateful characters to ever appear in a motion picture. We never find out the character’s given name. Everyone just calls him Pappy. He’s the...
View ArticleJames Franco Wins At The Gothams!
Hi, everyone! Well, as I sit here typing this, I am eagerly awaiting the announcement of the National Board of Review’s picks for the best of 2017! I keep thinking about how, in 2015, nobody took Mad...
View ArticleHorror Trailer: Pet Sematary
It looks like one of the advantages of It being such a success in the box-office in 2017 was the return of Stephen King film adaptations. It’s not just in the theaters that we’ve seen this latest run...
View ArticleFirst Man, Review By Case Wright
Happy Horrothon……wait a minute…this isn’t a horror movie!!! Nope, but it is going to win Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. First Man is a biopic of...
View ArticleWhat If Lisa Picked The Oscar Nominees: 2018 Edition
With the Oscar nominations due to be announced tomorrow, now is the time that the Shattered Lens indulges in a little something called, “What if Lisa had all the power.” Listed below are my personal...
View ArticleHere Are The 2020 Nominations of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists!
Earlier on Wednesday, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists announced their nominations for the best and the worst of 2020. The nominations were announced in the pages of Variety and you can read...
View ArticleThe Alliance of Women Film Journalists Honor Nomadland
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists have announced that their pick for the best of 2020 is Nomadland. Just as the AWFJ did with their nominations, they announced the winners in an exclusive for...
View ArticleOctober True Crime: Texas Killing Fields (dir by Ami Canaan Mann)
The so-called Texas Killing Fields are a stretch of land situated off of Interstate-45 and about 26 miles southeast of Houston. Despite being surrounded by oil refineries and being near one of Texas’s...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (dir by William Friedkin)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a film that I wanted to like more than I actually did. The movie, which is based on a play by Herman Wouk (which was itself based on a novel by Wouk that was adapted...
View Article14 Days of Paranoia #9: Chappaquiddick (dir by John Curran)
On July 18th, 1969, while American astronauts were preparing to land on and then take their first steps on the Moon, a 28 year-old woman named Mary Jo Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island...
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