Tag: film

By: Matt Overton I will admit, A24’s noisy marketing for The Moment worked on me. Was it going to be a cheeky mockumentary in the vein of This Is Spinal ...

Like all of the years before, 2025 has been a year. The continuation of mega corporate consolidation, the fear of a total theatrical collapse, a never-ending deluge of dying icons, ...

By: Matt Overton The Twenty-second Joint Glory, glory, hallelujah! Not only are we celebrating the fact that I have finished watching all of Spike Lee’s narrative feature films, but we’re ...

By: Matt Overton The Twenty-first Joint I foolishly assumed I had reached the nadir of Spike Lee’s career with his inflammatory Oldboy (2013), but little did I know what he ...

By: Matt Overton The Twentieth Joint In a career filled with deliberately controversial and provocative films, Spike Lee accomplished the unimaginable with his remake of Oldboy. The original 2003 film ...

By: Matt Overton Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film, One Battle After Another, has met the moment in history better than any piece of art in my lifetime. Totally subversive and provocative, ...

By: Matt Overton I attended my first Gofobo early screening tonight for the release of HIM—shoutout to TeamNBS for procuring those passes. After fumbling with the seating and being kicked ...

By: Matt Overton All That Jazz is one of those elusive films that I never heard of before joining Letterboxd, but have seen all over the place since then. It ...

By: Matt Overton The Nineteenth Joint Has anyone ever identified a slump era in Spike Lee’s career? I find it extremely ironic that the same year Obama was inaugurated, Spike ...

By: Matt Overton The Eighteenth Joint A mild-mannered postal worker murders an innocent man in cold blood one random morning, and an ancient Italian statue is found in the perp’s ...