richard drumm

It would have been all too easy to make Another Round look like a wild, Danish, middle-aged version of a frat movie. Or a highly judgmental meditation on society's relationship to recreational drinking. So commendations to the trailer…

As the interminable annual tradition of debating what is and isn’t a Christmas movie starts to recede from memory, perhaps it’s time to start into the next evolution of that argument; what is and isn’t a Valentine’s movie. What could be…

This year's Oscar nominations were revealed yesterday. While there were plenty of nice surprises (Cold War's Pawel Pawlikowski getting a nod for Best Director, First Reformed picking up a Best Original Screenplay nom, the women of Roma…

‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ as a turn of phrase is often especially true of films. However there are times – and movies – where the opposite holds just as true; Quantum of Solace is one such example. One wonders if this…

Star Wars is unquestionably a film lessened by everything that has come after it. For one, we can’t even simply refer to it as Star Wars; it has to be labelled Episode IV: A New Hope. This is to say nothing of how every frame, every shot…

They say the best parodies come from a place a true affection, that you can only scathingly send something up if you have real investment in it to start with. This was definitely the case with Austin Powers as Bond had in many ways already…