“Four Jacks.”

The pictures, folks, the pictures. Truly one of those films that makes you remember what the movies were made for. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are infectiously charming and dynamic, and create an instantly iconic on screen duo. The Sting is filled with gambits, hoodwinks, and shim-shams that put me on the edge of my seat for the majority of its runtime. So many moments made me clap, or exclaim out loud, and that’s the power of cinema…

“No one knows what they really want. Everyone’s waiting to be told what to do.”

In the early goings of this film, I felt that it might be the first Edward Yang film that I didn’t outright love. But of course I was wrong, and the film grew on me the more it went on, leading up to one of my favourite third acts in Yang’s filmography. 

Mahjong is this rich portrait of American and British idealism in a developing…

It’s truly astonishing how badly they fumbled The Bear post season 2. Not in terms of quality, but in release and distribution. The show consistently has batch-dropped all of their episodes, and with each new season there are less and less new eyes seeing the product. This trend has skyrocketed with the release of the final season, which is apparently out, even though you wouldn’t know it based on the show’s advertising strategy. It’s truly unfortunate how little FX seems…

It’s so ironic that there’s a joke near the end of the film where they say their story is being adapted into a film for streaming, and sarcastically say that it’s even better than a theatrical release, when this is the most streaming-esque film I’ve seen in some time. With that being said, I was quite disappointed with this. I usually love the output from the Lonely Island boys, and the trailer seemed so promising. But this film felt like…