Generation Film’s Top 25 Films of 2017
25. Raw (Julia Ducournau)- Julia Ducournau’s dangerously seductive and mercilessly immersive horror film Raw leaves an impression on those who experience it. It’s visually provocative, symbolically...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s 2017 Oscar Nomination Predictions
Below are my predictions for the 2017 Academy Award nominations before they’re officially announced on Tuesday, January 24th a week from now. I’ll admit there’s a bit of bias in some of the...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s Top 25 Films of 2016
25. Embrace the Serpent– Though it was nominated in last year’s Best Foreign Language category for the Academy Awards, I wasn’t able to experience the engrossing and unsettling artistry of Ciro...
View ArticleMovie Review: Pete’s Dragon (2016)
The audacity of Disney’s shrewd reboot business model eventually invokes a feeling of admiration, that is, after the seizure inducing eye-rolling and involuntary dry-heaving stops. Through the modern...
View ArticleMovie Review: Suicide Squad (2016)
If the regulative powers within the state of Michigan or the EPA ever decide to find a streamlined, efficient solution to the poisoning of residents in Flint, they should immediately then turn their...
View ArticleMovie Review: Ghostbusters (2016)
If these last couple of weeks has taught us anything it’s that our culture has been possessed by black & white absolutism. Differing opinions on the political climate, the significance of modern...
View ArticleMovie Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Somewhere in the first half of X-Men: Apocalypse a group of scrappy teenage mutants exit a movie theater circa 1983 after witnessing the last of the Star Wars franchise (or what should have been the...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Nice Guys (2016)
Shane Black’s latest film The Nice Guys seems quite out of place with our current trends of cinema, mostly because it’s the product of a bygone era of machismo centric mismatched buddy-cop comedy...
View ArticleMovie Review: High-Rise (2016)
It’s unsurprising that the works of science-fiction novelist and satirist J.G. Ballard would eventually be prone to misinterpretation, mostly because it’s the fate that befalls most socially critical...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Lobster (2015)
Though you might not consciously be aware of it, most modern societies are constructed around the favored legal restriction and enforcement of monogamy through the governmentally approved promotion of...
View ArticleMovie Review: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
In building the all-encompassing Marvel Cinematic Universe (or the MCU for short), Disney/Marvel, a.k.a. our New Cinematic Entertainment Overlords, have sometimes taken shortcuts in fashioning their...
View ArticleMovie Review: A Bigger Splash (2016)
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s English-language debut entitled A Bigger Splash takes place in a specifically chosen setting at a villa hillside getaway on Pantelleria, a volcanic island that’s...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s Official 2016 Oscar Ballot for the 88th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards are a week away and the anticipation isn’t necessarily high, mostly due to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that may or may not be valid (let’s assume it is due to overall lack of...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s 2016 Oscar Nominee Snubs, Omissions, and Surprises
My previous predictions of 20 of the 24 categories weren’t exactly spot on, though I believe they were almost in the range of being 80% correct (or solid C+/B- work in terms of my own grading scale on...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s 2016 Oscar Nominee Predictions
This Thursday (January 14th, 2016) the 88th Academy Award nominees will be announced for their inevitable annual presentation February, 28th. In a year where the awards race has been inconsistent and...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s Top 25 Most Anticipated Films of 2016
25. War on Everyone Director: John Michael McDonagh (Calvary, The Guard) Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Tessa Thompson, Theo James, Stephanie Sigman Synopsis (from IMDB): Two corrupt cops in...
View ArticleGeneration Film’s Top 25 Films of 2015
25. The End of the Tour– Though it’s incredibly likely that the great, late American novelist David Foster Wallace would have thoroughly objected to the creation of The End of the Tour, it’s actually...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Hateful Eight (2015)
Filmmaker and cinephile Quentin Tarantino’s celluloid occupied brain seems to resist being encumbered by meticulously absorbed cinema history, always being able to refocus his influences beyond...
View ArticleMovie Review: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
After years of anticipation and months of slowly revealing trailers, junkets, and theories, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has finally arrived as the cinematic event of your lifetime, at...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Big Short (2015)
It’s quite unsurprising that culture satirist, jocular director, and blustery social media persona Adam McKay would force his career towards tackling more discerning political material. This is, after...
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