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Originally published by The Untitled Magazine on December 17th, 2025. Before we can have a proper discussion about Bradley Cooper’s new movie, we must first have a proper discussion about Bradley Cooper and his relationship with stardom. Cooper turned 50 this … Read More

Originally published by The Untitled Magazine on November 5th, 2025. “I think it’s time you and I sat down and had a proper talk.” So says Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgard) to his daughter, Nora (Renate Reinsve), during the opening moments of Joachim … Read More

Originally published via The Untitled Magazine on February 13th, 2025. I want to take you back to the seventies, to a time when a select few of America’s film critics operated like kingmakers, when their opinions could make or break … Read More

Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on December 3rd, 2020. Mank is a phenomenal piece of cinema, but it is not a very entertaining movie. What David Fincher has achieved is a sweeping parlor trick that satirizes the majesty of Hollywood’s … Read More

Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on October 21st, 2020. During a 2017 interview with Berlinale Talents, 40-year-old writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch) described the year after she had graduated from UCLA as … Read More

I went to see Batman Begins alone in an empty theater that had a max cap of fewer than 300 seats. I knew nothing about movies and even less about directors. I made no connection between Christopher Nolan and the … Read More

Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on February 15th, 2015. Assuming you have seen the one-minute Jurassic World trailer that ran during the Super Bowl – and, let’s be honest, who hasn’t? – you know it opens on a clip featuring a five-ton Mosasaurus swallowing a great … Read More

Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on December 15, 2014. The story of Sissy Spacek is a story based on family. It is the story of a poor girl, from Texas, a shy girl, a homecoming queen. It is the … Read More

Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on October 22nd, 2014. There comes a point in every budding director’s career, usually a few movies in, where the circumstances align to allow for a breakthrough. The backing is there, the level of … Read More