Author: Craig Silliphant
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John Wick Chapter 4
The man of a million headshots is back. Keanu Reeves puts on his fashionable Kevlar suit in John Wick Chapter 4. Is it worth seeing? I didn’t remember the end of John Wick Chapter 3, so I didn’t know what was happening at the start of John Wick Chapter 4. But that didn’t really matter…
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The Top 10 Films of 2022
We’re doing 2022’s Best of Film coverage differently this year; instead of a large panel of friends and critics, Craig Silliphant gives us his top 10 movies of 2022. In past years, we assembled a crack team of movie-loving friends, industry people, and professional critics to each talk about their best and worst movies of…
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Best Movies of 2022 – #26 through #11
Before you read Craig Silliphant’s Top 10 films of 2022, you can find out what movies that hit the number 11 to number 26 slots. You can read Craig’s Top 10 films of 2022 in the next piece (or by clicking here), but these are some of the other movies worth checking out that came…
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The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner bring Spielberg’s origins to life in this semi-autobiographical look at the filmmaker’s early years when he learned to make movies. While his sensibilities may be too mainstream Hollywood for some film nerds to worship, I submit that Steven Spielberg is one of film history’s greatest treasures. Perhaps I was imprinted…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continues the story of Wakanda, now a nation without it’s king and protector. But did the movie succeed without Chadwick Boseman? It’s hard to overstate the importance of Marvel’s first Black Panther movie, if not as a film itself, as piece of culture that allowed black people to finally see themselves…
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Blonde
Blonde is either the most feminist movie of the year — or the most misogynist. One thing’s for sure, it’s a feat of brilliant filmmaking. DISCLAIMER: Before we launch in here, I should point out this movie, about the inner turmoil of a woman, was made by a man. And that I am a man…
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Emily the Criminal
In Emily the Criminal, Aubrey Plaza plays a woman in debt getting sucked into a criminal organization. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth a watch. One of the best things that Emily the Criminal does is capture the zeitgeist of where people are at right now, both financially and mentally. We’re living in a world…
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Prey
Lo and behold, another film in the Predator franchise! In Prey, Amber Midthunder takes on an ugly as heck hunter from space in the 1700s. It’s honestly difficult to keep some of the more generic Predator movies straight in my mind — and it’s already a franchise that varies widely in quality. The high point…
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Obi-wan Kenobi Round Table Review – Episodes 5 and 6
Obi-wan Kenobi’s last episode dropped this week. Kim and Craig sort through the wreckage of laser blasts and Kenobi’s emotions to chat about the show. Read our conversation on the first two episodes here. Read our conversation on the 3rd and 4th episodes here. EPISODE FIVE KIM: As we wrote about the first four episodes,…
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Vortex
Gaspar Noe is back, with a different kind of visceral filmmaking and horror — old age and dementia. Vortex is a difficult but amazing film. Since 1998’s I Stand Alone, I’ve been watching Gaspar Noe films with interest. They’re always visceral and many of them hold some combination of horror, surrealness, and brilliant filmmaking. But…