AIR dramatizes a fascinating story with light touch
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Michael Jordan was inevitable, but what Air does is give an inside view of how improbable the Nike side of this deal actually was.
THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE remembers how to take kids on an adventure
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Quick references and background gags aside, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is not really a nostalgia play.
Printing the Legend: Altman's New Hollywood Westerns
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Website, Red Herring
One of New Hollywood’s key figures, Robert Altman offered two takes on the western in the 1970s.
Printing the Legend: BUCK AND THE PREACHER restores Black American stories within the western
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
An engaging and sometimes violent western brimming with righteous indignation and a reclamation of lost heritage.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON at 60: The biggest Hollywood film of all time?
60 years after its release, you will never be able to see How the West Was Won the way it was intended.
Read MoreANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA dives into unrestrained superhero adventuring
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Quantumania feels like pulling a random comic book from a box and going along for the ride.
Romance Week: TITANIC, tropes, and romance aboard the “ship of dreams”
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, and Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
Everyone loves a good old-fashioned forbidden upstairs-downstairs (or in this case, first class-steerage) romance.
Tense thriller KNOCK AT THE CABIN sees Shyamalan returning to fertile thematic ground
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Knock at the Cabin is a great entry into Shyamalan’s uneven filmography. It’s tense, scary, and provocative as long as you are willing to engage within its premise as earnestly as it is laid out.
SHTETLERS provides a glimpse of living history that should not be forgotten
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Ultimately, Shtetlers is a story of perseverance. Of a culture, a people, and individuals.
Printing the Legend: Butch, Sundance, and Belle Starr
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Welcome back to year two of Printing the Legend, where I journey far and wide across the western genre in search of the horizon.
Printing the Legend: Kelly Reichardt deconstructs the frontier and the frontiersmen
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
My favorite director working in the genre right now is Kelly Reichardt.
Season 2 of STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH combines pulpy thrills with a focus on veterans
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
The Bad Batch is as vital to the tapestry of the Galaxy Far Far Away as any other movies or shows from the past decade.
BABYLON is Damien Chazelle babbling on and on and on
by Rosalie Kicks, The Old Sport, and Ryan Silberstein, The Red Herring
We wish Babylon loved movies as much as we do.
Ryan Silberstein's Top 15 movies of 2022
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
I enjoy making lists. All kinds of lists. It’s just part of how my brain organizes things. But lists or rankings of art are merely snapshots of how I feel in a particular moment in time.
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER is James Cameron’s greatest hits album
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Combining cutting-edge technology with classic, earnest storytelling is firmly the hallmark of this series, and it honestly gave me almost everything I wanted from it.
How Rankin/Bass imprinted the spirit of Christmas on multiple generations
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor
Or…how to introduce children to Burl Ives and Fred Astaire.
Ryan Silberstein's Best Discoveries of 2022
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
This is my favorite list to put together all year. I watched a ton of “new to me” movies in 2022, and so many of them brought me joy that it was hard to even narrow down to just 12.
The first season of ANDOR ends with sky and stone, plus a brick to the face of fascism
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Well there it is, the best season of live action Star Wars so far.
THE FABELMANS pulls back Spielberg’s psychological curtain even further, but with unclear purpose
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Like any autobiographical work, The Fabelmans is an act of self-mythology, of course. It is cleaned up, the edges smoothed, pulled back from reality just enough to give a veneer of truth over the facts of his life.
DEVOTION is a welcome war movie throwback - with an updated focus
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Devotion is very much a “dad movie,” but it stands out with its exceptionally charming leads, sturdy structure, and sincere emotions.