Top 10 Movies of 2022 (Midwesterners Edition)
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
I don’t often feel FOMO, but the one time I really feel it is at the end of the year when everyone’s year end lists for movies are dropping and I’m stuck on the sidelines.
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
I don’t often feel FOMO, but the one time I really feel it is at the end of the year when everyone’s year end lists for movies are dropping and I’m stuck on the sidelines.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Benoit Blanc returns, and in the tradition of other sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, is pitted against a whole new cast of characters in solving a murder.
by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer
Welcome to MovieJawn’s first ever Sound & Vision Poll, where our writers share why they love their 10 favorite movies of all time!
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
MovieJawn had a chance to chat with the writer-director about Glass Onion during his appearance at the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Written and Directed by Rian Johnson
Starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and a slew of other sharp dressed people
Running Time 2 hours, 10 minutes
MPAA Rating PG-13
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
In some families, when a relative kicks the bucket it can be quite thrilling.
by Matthew Waldron
In December, upon the release of The Last Jedi, an individual asked me on Reddit if I was a Star Wars “fan." It wasn’t a casual inquiry, it was a challenge. I was active in a thread where “fans” were raging against Rian Johnson and the decisions he made as the film’s writer/director. Not a single person was criticizing the quality of the script. Or the performances. No one had anything critical to say about where Johnson put his camera. No one was aghast at blurry, out-of-focus shots or anything remotely unprofessional. But many people were pissed because they’d spent, by their own choice, the past three years speculating about who Rey’s parents were, and didn’t like the answer they’d been given. I brought up the inherent dilemma behind criticizing a filmmaker’s work, not because of its quality, but because of its non-alignment with what you feel, as a “fan," you were “owed." I made the argument that Johnson owed no one anything beyond a commitment to his personal version. This was the point at which my “fandom” was called into question.
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by Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Unpredictability is always a virtue of good storytelling. Paul Thomas Anderson has said that, while it’s always smart to stay one step ahead of your audience, you need to let the audience know they’re being guided by a steady hand. One step ahead is good. Twenty steps ahead is arrogance. On the other end of the spectrum, we might find someone like David Lynch - operating from the rarefied air (or ocean, as he may call it) of a man at home in his own subconscious. But they can’t all be Lynch, being the holy master of modern American surrealism. They can’t all be Anderson, for that matter, asking bigger questions than mainstream cinema has any rights to answer - all while groveling in the dirt with the rest of us. So. There’s unpredictability - never tipping your hand, keeping a few narrative tricks up your sleeve, loading your plot with clever misdirections and twists… and then there’s Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi.
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