Posts by Christian Long

If you’re looking for a Fellini-like take on American suburbia, Greener Grass is for you

Oh, won’t someone *please* think of the conservative, white males

Lacking any real punch, the joke’s on only the audience.

It’s a positively caged performance from the actor known for being unrestrained.

[rating=7.00] It’s a national conversation that has been repeated so often that it borders on parody. The self-aggrandizing Baby Boomers who scowl and rasp at the entitled and ungrateful Millennials, disparaging their inability to chase an American dream that their own generation has been single-handedly snuffing out since the late 1970s. That conflict is dead […]

SPOILER WARNING To call Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood a movie in search of an idea wouldn’t really be accurate. Mostly because the nearly three-hour movie is perfectly content to have you ride along with semi-washed-up movie star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt-double/gopher Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) as they wander […]

[rating=7.00] Oftentimes, the term B-movie, or its counterpart term, grindhouse, can vary between overly wrought horror or aggressively retrofitted to harken back to the days of worn-out film stock and yellowed projection screens. Trespassers, which is available on demand today via IFC Films, manages to skillfully execute a standard home invasion horror film, and does […]

Spider-Man is definitely having a moment

Avengers: Endgame teases what the MCU is capable of, but never really indulges in it.

[rating=7.00] Back at the dawn of the 1990s, Emilio Estevez wrote and directed Men At Work, a darkly comedic tale about an unsung staple in our social contract, the garbage man. Now, 29 years later, Estevez is back at the helm of another ode to an overlooked, underappreciated institution, the public library. It starts off […]

For all its charms, there’s still a lack of anything truly distinguishable about DC’s latest.

True Detective is back…but just how True Detective is it?

2018 was a year full of ridiculous surprises, and that extended into film and TV as well

Though familiar, Ben is Back manages to tell a story of addiction in an interesting and intriguing way.

DC just can’t seem to swim away from their worst instincts.

Into the Spider-Verse might just be the best iteration of your friendly neighborhood Spider-man.

A holiday gift guide for the movie or TV fan on your list

The director of the depression-era epic discusses why he wanted to make the film

The creators of the time Travel romp on the uneasy start and smooth finish of their first feature film

The director of ‘The Front Runner’ on truth, relevance, and whether our system favors the shameless