Blu-ray Review: Sympathy For the Underdog (Limited Edition)

Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola should feel lucky that the Yakuza films of Kinji Fukasaku weren’t imported into American theater during the ’70s. People might not have been so blown away by Mean Streets and The Godfather if they’d seen his Japanese mobster movies. At best the two directors would have been battling to … Read more

Glicked Box Office Reminds Us That Nobody Knows Nothing

Would 2021 be the year “the movie musical took its last bow?” Like many others, The Guardian posited exactly such doom and gloom after Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights flopped (as did the Dear Evan Hansen movie, but that one was less surprising…).