June, for many people, is a time of celebration and joy. To many, June is Pride Month, the time of year where the LGBT community affirms itself and its place in the world. What once was a solemn reminder of the 1969 Stonewall Riots now stan...
Two years ago, the DCEU was a joke. When DC set out to create a cinematic universe to rival Marvel's history making experiment, the results were almost always going to pale in comparison to whatever Marvel did. That didn't mean that the pro...
Perhaps to the roving cynic, Better Call Saul would be remembered as “the Breaking Bad spin-off.” After five seasons (really, more like six) of Walter White’s Tony Montana-like ascension of the American methamphetamine rac...
[Welcome to Peter's Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We'll be covering all kinds of Hong Kong action films from Bruce Lee all the way to Joseph Kuo. Get ready to b...
Welcome back to the Decade Decathlon, where we're taking an extended look back at the past decade of filmmaking to see what worked, what didn't, and what stories we can learn from the past. So... this took a while to come out. Wh...
Hollywood is in a state of turmoil. Thanks to COVID-19 putting a damper on... well, everything really. No industry was hit quite as bad as the entertainment industry. Carefully curated plans were destroyed, prime release windows will b...
The New Mutants is the unluckiest film ever. I mean, think about it. Has there been a film with a worse fate than The New Mutants, the Fox/Disney film adapting the titular "young X-Men" squad of Marvel Comics fame? This is a...
The MCU looked unstoppable. Yes, Avengers: Endgame wrapped up the decade long plotline that the series had been building towards but the studio had a plan for the next run and it was all going to kick off with Black Widow releasin...
[Welcome to Peter's Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We'll be covering all kinds of Hong Kong action films from Bruce Lee all the way to Joseph Kuo. Get ready to b...
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard work done by our own Hubert Vigilla, I hope to select a few fa...
Did you know that Onward, the latest Pixar movie, comes out in two days? It doesn't seem real to me that it's releasing so soon, mostly because I genuinely forgot that it existed. It wasn't until I looked at this week's upcoming releases th...
[Welcome to Peter's Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We'll be covering all kinds of Hong Kong action films from Bruce Lee all the way to Joseph Kuo. Get ready to be i...
Picture this; it's a Sunday afternoon. You're in between video games, you have nothing better to do, so you decide to dust off your Netflix account to see what's new. I hardly use Netflix anymore, really only cracking it open for She-Ra, Ca...
To say that Parasite has set the movie-watching world on fire would be an understatement. We're all burning alive in its class-based rage and loving it. After a first of its kind Academy Award win for Best Picture and plenty of good ol' mon...
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard work done by our own Hubert Vigilla, I hope to select a few fa...
It’s the first full week of February and we need to talk, which means it’s time once again for C What’s On, our look at what the Criterion Channel has programmed for its subscribers. It is Black History month, which means ...
With less than a week until the Academy Awards, it's time to take a look at the categories that you may not have ever heard of. Sure, the Best Picture and acting categories may be all that people are talking about leading up to the awards, ...
In the tail end of 2019, I reached an unthinkable dilemma. For whatever reason, I had stopped caring about movies—as a business, as a medium, and as an interest overall. Perhaps it was news coming out of the industry, or my growing ad...
2019 was one hell of a year for movies. I'm someone who catches flak from friends because I "don't like anything," or am always reluctant to heap praise upon things, which is true! I think there are a ton of movies I enjoy, but I'm always a...
2019 was a great year for movies. Not even just sequels and remakes either! There were some honest to goodness original films and some of them were ones people actually went and saw. Crazy right? I mean people mostly went to the remakes and...
In an effort to curb outcry against snubs like Adam Sandler and Jennifer Lopez in this year's Academy Awards nominations, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to begin issuing preemptive bans on actors and filmmakers ...
This is the time of year in which we look back at the year prior and think about the art and pop culture that left an impact on us. Many writers here at Flixist have written articles about our Top 5 Films of 2019 (myself included). I love f...
As we move into the new year and new decade, it's time to take a look back at the previous year. My colleagues and I are writing lists of our favorite films of 2019. I wanted to do something a little different this year. I didn't want to wr...
Welcome back to the Decade Decathlon, where we're taking an extended look back at the past decade of filmmaking to see what worked, what didn't, and what stories we can learn from the past. As the Decade Decathlon slowly makes its way ...
As I look back on the last year in film, I feel like I still have a lot of catching up to do. I didn’t see nearly as many movies in 2019 as I did in 2018, so there’s no way I could do a top 50 movies list. Yet even though I&rsqu...
We're halfway through January and it already feels like an age since 2019. So, sitting down to add a few of my thoughts to this edition of our top 5 films was a chance to reflect on some of the best experiences of the last year, some e...
Earlier today, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science announced the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards. With a huge swath of movies nominated for a variety of awards, it's bound to be a time of celebration and praise for the film...
Another year has come and gone for the film industries and now that we're in the middle of the deadest month of the year in terms of new releases, might as well look back at all of the movies that came out last year. I'll hold off my though...
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard work done by our own Hubert Vigilla, I hope to select a few fa...
When thinking about how to make a list of the best films of the decade it seemed daunting. For one thing the staff has changed dramatically since Flixist started and for another there were just a lot of movies that came out. How could we po...
We've got a lot on our plate lately; a raw main course and too sweet a dessert is maybe the food analogy I'll roll with. In America, the country is battering itself over political allegiances (or lack thereof) and the ways in which we're pr...
Star Wars has been one of the biggest cultural forces in Hollywood for the last four decades. Coming from an unassuming little serial that George Lucas directed in 1977, we're now right at the "end" of the saga with the series' ninth offici...
Welcome back to the Decade Decathlon, where we're taking an extended look back at the past decade of filmmaking to see what worked, what didn't, and what stories we can learn from the past. With 2016 relegated to the year that no one rememb...
As we inch closer and closer to the end of the year, not only will we be ringing out the year, but we'll be closer out an entire decade. It's been an insane ten years in the film world, and with so many good movies to discuss, it's going to...
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard work done by our own Hubert Vigilla, I hope to select a few fa...
I shouldn't have to explain what Frozen is. The concept of cultural osmosis fascinates me. Essentially, the idea is that even if you haven't experienced an aspect of culture, in this case pop culture, you're still aware of its existen...
There's just something about getting together with family that brings the worst out in people. While we all love our relatives (mostly), getting together during the holiday seasons causes people to go stir crazy. Either because of politics ...
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard work done by our own Hubert Vigilla, I hope to select a few favorit...
We fell back over the weekend, which means you have extra time to read C What’s On, our look at what the Criterion Channel has programmed for its subscribers. The November offerings are once again eclectic and delectable, with a showc...
Happy Halloween everyone! Look outside, can't you see it? Children stopping door to door grabbing candy. The night coming just a wee bit earlier than normal. And horror movies are screening all across the world. While some love to celebrate...
