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Review: Sinners (2025)

Ryan Coogler’s bid for star-director status delivers an entertaining, powerful concoction of crime, sex, horror, action, and blues music.

Table Talk: Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968)

Anders and Aren discuss Peter Bogdanovich’s debut feature, Targets, and how the film is a touchstone for the work of Quentin Tarantino and explores the relationship between violence and cinema.

RoundtablesAnders BergstromApril 21, 2020Targets, Table Talk, Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Fuller, Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time ... in HollywoodComment

Aren's Top 50 Films of the Decade (2010-2019)

Aren reflects on the last decade in film and lists his 50 favourite movies from 2010 to 2019.

FeaturesAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2020Kubo and the Two Strings, Skyfall, The Social Network, The Wind Rises, The Tree of Life, Dunkirk, It Follows, Inside Llewyn Davis, Phantom Thread, The Wolf of Wall Street, Certified Copy, Inception, Son of Saul, Annihilation, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Silence, Blade Runner 2049, The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, Mad Max: Fury Road, First Reformed, 12 Years a Slave, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hugo, A Dangerous Method, The Immigrant, Parasite, The Dark Knight Rises, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sicario, A Separation, Black Swan, Upstream Color, The Master, The Irishman, Django Unchained, Gone Girl, Zero Dark Thirty, O.J. Made in America, Drug War, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Nightcrawler, Roma, Sunset, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, La La Land, A Star Is Born, John Wick, Moonrise Kingdom, After the Storm, Hypernormalisation, Top 50 Films of the Decade, Best of the DecadeComment

Anders' Top 10 Films of 2019

Anders shares some of his favourite films from 2019, some widely acclaimed, like Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood and Parasite , as well as a couple of more offbeat picks …

FeaturesAnders BergstromFebruary 7, 2020Anders' Top 10, 2019, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Parasite, The Irishman, Uncut Gems, Ash Is Purest White, The Lighthouse, Missing Link, Frozen II, American DharmaComment

Predicting the 2020 Oscars

Aren predicts the 2020 Academy Awards.

FeaturesAren BergstromFebruary 5, 2020Predicting the Oscars, 2020 Oscars, 1917, Joker, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, ParasiteComment

Aren's Top 10 Films of 2019

Aren shares his favourite films of the past year, from Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood to The Irishman to A Hidden Life, many of which deal with the passing of time and the challenges of history.

FeaturesAren BergstromJanuary 6, 2020Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Parasite, The Irishman, Sunset, A Hidden Life, Little Women, Deadwood: The Movie, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Lighthouse, Apollo 11Comment

Roundtable: Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (2019)

The Brothers discuss Quentin Tarantino’s latest and its huge cast, historical revisionism, and function as a fairy tale.

RoundtablesAren BergstromAugust 2, 2019Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Baker, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Al Pacino, Once Upon a Time ... in HollywoodComment