DIRECTROSPECTIVE: GARAGE DAYS (2002)
Everything you want from a musical comedy, unless you want songs or jokes.
Directrospective: DARK CITY (1998)
What shocking secrets lurk beneath the darkened city streets of the dark city known as “Dark City” in… DARK CITY…
Directrospective: SPIRITS OF THE AIR, GREMLINS OF THE CLOUDS (1989)
Watching Alex Proyas’s first film is a little like staring at the cover of that one Midnight Oil album for an hour and a half, in ways both grueling and transcendent.
Directrospective: ABDUCTION (2011)
In Singleton’s defense, I don’t think he planned for this to be his final film.
Directrospective: 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS (2003)
Sure, it’s probably the worst in the series, but that title is undeniable.
Directrospective: BABY BOY (2001)
This belated-coming-of-age drama is John Singleton’s last great film.
Directrospective: SHAFT (2000)
Unfortunately, I cannot dig John Singleton’s relaunch of the bad mothershutyourmouth.
Directrospective: ROSEWOOD (1997)
John Singleton’s fourth film is a forgotten historical epic about a forgotten atrocity.
Directrospective: HIGHER LEARNING (1995)
Singleton’s third film tries to figure out what a college movie for the 1990s should look like (and mostly succeeds).
Directrospective: POETIC JUSTICE (1993)
John Singleton’s follow-up to BOYZ N THE HOOD is a sweet road movie that lets the heavier stuff stay in the background.
Directrospective: BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991)
John Singleton’s debut feature is a hood melodrama about what it means to be a man.
Directrospective: YESTERDAY (2019)
Our Danny Boyle Directrospective wraps up with the worst, least Danny Boyle film he ever made.
Directrospective: T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017)
A twenty-years-later TRAINSPOTTING sequel about how strange an idea for a movie that is.
Directrospective: STEVE JOBS (2015)
Aaron Sorkin scripts Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic about the emotional journey of Aaron Sorkin.
Directrospective: TRANCE (2013)
Danny Boyle dusts off an old script from 1994 to make the kind of movie that was stupid even back then.
Directrospective: SUNSHINE (2007)
It’s tough to decide whether or not to save all of humanity.