Kyle Amato’s Year-End Wrap Up
Kyle Amato is a regular contributor to Film Flam, as well as the co-host of the internet’s premiere Ethan Hawke-themed podcast, Hawke…
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REVIEW: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018) dir. Bobb Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, & Rodney Rothman
You can be forgiven for rolling your eyes at yet another Spider-Man movie. The latest actor to don the suit, Tom Holland,…
REVIEW: The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Yorgos Lanthimos does not do normal. What, at first glance, could seem like a standard costume drama about a long dead monarch,…
REVIEW: Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) dir. Rich Moore
To start, I must say that no matter what I do, this review will be biased. Wreck-It Ralph is one of my…
REVIEW: Blaze (2018) dir. Ethan Hawke
Who gets to be remembered? How do we determine whose stories are worth passing onto others? And who was Blaze Foley? In…
REVIEW: Juliet, Naked (2018) dir. Jesse Peretz
As someone who has become something of a connoisseur of the works of Ethan Hawke, watching a film that opens with a…
REVIEW: Support the Girls (2018) dir. Andrew Bujalski
A year in the service industry should be compulsory for all Americans. You should not be allowed to enter polite society without…
REVIEW: Leave No Trace (2018) dir. Debra Granik
After launching Jennifer Lawrence’s career eight years ago with the chilling Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik finally returns to do the same for…
REVIEW: Incredibles 2 (2018) dir. Brad Bird
After fourteen years of leaps in animation and mainstream superhero movie saturation, Pixar’s Incredibles 2 has finally arrived. The sequel to…
REVIEW: Disobedience (2018) dir. Sebastián Lelio
A Passionate Rachel Weisz Performance Can’t Overcome Disobedience’s Melodrama Fresh off his Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián…
REVIEW: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) dir. Anthony & Joe Russo
Avengers: Infinity War is a bombastic denouement for the Marvel Cinematic Universe After ten years and eighteen movies, the climax of the Marvel…
BUFF20 INTERVIEW: ‘THE RANGER’ director Jenn Wexler
The morning after the east coast premiere at BUFF20, I had a conversation with director Jenn Wexler about her first feature film,…
