Shane Slater

LATEST ARTICLES ( 905 )

• Best of 2023: Top 10 Films of the Year

  

  We've come to the end of another fantastic year at the movies. And as I look back on the year's best films, it's clear that filmmakers around the world had... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Best of 2023: Top 20 Acting Performances

  

  It's always a difficult task to narrow down the year's best film performances. The art of acting continues to impress and surprise me every year, as talented... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  

  After numerous sequels, reboots and Marvel Cinematic Universe crossovers, you'd think audiences would be tired of seeing Spider-Man on screen. I would be one... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: The Zone of Interest

  

  On first glance, the Höss family of two parents and five children are your typical middle class family. They live in a comfortable home with hired help, a... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Four Daughters

  

  Among the post 9/11 terror panic, few radical groups are as feared as ISIS. At the height of their powers they seized control of significant portions of... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Barbie

  

  Under ordinary circumstances, the idea of a "Barbie" film would elicit dismissive groans from any discerning movie lover. But when it was announced that this bi... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Anatomy of a Fall

  

  In the opening scenes of Justine Triet's engrossing Palme d'Or winner "Anatomy of a Fall", we meet the film's protagonist Sandra at her cozy mountain chalet. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Killers of the Flower Moon

  

  Much like its legacy of slavery, American society has yet to fully reckon with the genocidal suppresion of Native Americans. In his latest epic "Killers of the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Oppenheimer

  

  During the month of August 1945, two events occured that would change the course of world forever. Specifically, the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Bobi Wine: The People's President

  

  The corruption of African leaders has almost become a cliché since the post-colonial democratization of the continent's various nations. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Top 10 TV Programs of 2022-2023

  

  Succession (HBO)Better Call Saul (AMC)Fire Island (Hulu)Abbott Elementary (ABC)House of the Dragon (HBO)The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Top 10 Acting Performances of 2022-2023 TV

  

  Sarah Snook, SuccessionMatthew McFadyen, SuccessionKieran Culkin, SuccessionJeremy Strong, SuccessionAli Wong, BeefVivian Oparah, Rye LaneBrian Cox,... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Poor Things

  

  In the summer of 2023, Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" took the world by storm to the tune of $1.4 billion at the box office. Crafting a feminist tale surrounding the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Best of 2022: Top 10 Films of the Year

  

  With a whole new slate of films already unspooling before us, it's time for me to close the book on 2022. And what a great year it was, with Hollywood filmmakin... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Best of 2022: Top 20 Acting Performances

  

  As the young'uns would say these days, "She's so mother!" If there was a recurring theme among this year's best performances on film, then it would definitely b... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Bones and All

  

  On the surface, Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell) seems like your average teenager, living with her dad Frank (André Holland) in 1980s Virginia. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: The Fabelmans

  

  When we think of Steven Spielberg, we often exclusively associate him with blockbuster spectacles like "Jaws", "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" and "Jurassic Park". Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Top Gun: Maverick

  

  There's no denying we're in a nostalgic era in Hollywood, with sequels and remakes galore flooding the multiplexes. Nowhere is that more evident than the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Joyland

  

  The 2022 film year delivered numerous discoveries from across the world. One of the most exciting new filmmakers came not from the global north, however, but th... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• REVIEW: Everything Everywhere All At Once

  

  In 2016, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (also known as the Daniels) emerged on the film scene with their bizarre farting corpse comedy "Swiss Army Man". Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES