It is 1974, and the airwaves are full of the ongoing investigation into the Watergate scandal. Two news items (voiced by 18½‘s director and co-writer Dan Mirvish) are heard going in and of tune on a car radio — the first about a mysterious $100,000 cash donation made by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes to Richard…
First Cow first published by Movies On Weekends “It’s the getting started that’s the puzzle,” says King-Lu (Orion Lee) in Kelly Reichardt‘s First Cow. “No way for a poor man to start. You need capital. Or you need some kind of miracle… Or a crime.” It is the early nineteenth century, not that far removed…
Overlord first published by Little White Lies Overlord, the second feature from director Julius Avery (Son of a Gun), begins in the familiar cinematic terrains of the war movie, before deviating to genre’s hinterlands. After rendering the idents for both Paramount and Bad Robot in black and white to signify its period status, the film…