Derek Cianfrance is an unusual director. And his films are unusually compelling, even when they don’t feel fully realized. His first, Blue Valentine,…
This week on Required Viewing, we eat carbs whilst watching ballet dancers in 2000’s Center Stage eat hardly anything. For those of you who…
A movie about Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, where’s the dramatic tension in that? Right? As it turns out, Southside With You proves…
Home invasion is a scenario that rarely deals in gray area. There are the white-hatted heroes and final girls on one side and…
You know that twinge of regret when you see a movie later in its life and are left wishing you had seen it…
We’re going back to Cali…Cali…Cali. Laguna Beach, to be exact. Like our protagonist, LC, we spent one semester in San Francisco and we…
In 1990, Goodfellas showed us the details of the mysterious life of gangsters. Now, in 2016, War Dogs seeks to show us how a couple…
Kubo and the Two Strings is the latest effort from Laika, those delightful quirk monsters who brought us Coraline and Paranorman. But Kubo…
Did you hear? School’s canceled today cause Kurt and Ram killed themselves in a repressed, homosexual suicide pact! This week, Required Viewing takes…
Disney has been on a tear of modernizing some of their most classic properties. Pete’s Dragon is the latest to receive the treatment,…