Clint Worthington, Author at Consequence

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Breathes New Life Into the Classic Fable: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:00:01 +0000

The Pitch: 2022 has really seemed like The Year of Pinocchio. While the original 1883 Italian novel by Carlo Collodi has had its fair share of adaptations over the years (from classic Disney delights to, well, Pauly Shore in middle-aged twink mode), this year saw new takes on the material from…

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Breathes New Life Into the Classic Fable: Review
Clint Worthington

Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:47 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: America is a land of mythmaking: if you’re savvy and lucky (and often, unscrupulous) enough, you can carve out a legend of your own design. That’s what happened to Richard Davis, the oddball inventor of the…

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Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance: Review
Clint Worthington

Meet Me in the Bathroom Is a Time Capsule of 2000s Indie Rock

Clint Worthington — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:20:58 +0000

This review was originally part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: Pitched between the doomsday-prepping of Y2K and the existential horror of 9/11, 2000s New York was also home to another seismic change in American culture: the burgeoning indie-rock scene, where dingy clubs on the Lower…

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Meet Me in the Bathroom Is a Time Capsule of 2000s Indie Rock
Clint Worthington

Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:10:05 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Don DeLillo’s White Noise is one of those “great American novels” long thought to be unfilmable, a scattered, acerbic takedown of late American capitalism and its incessant need to distract from the inevitability of death…

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Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise: Review
Clint Worthington

Bones And All Sucks the Marrow Of Its Horrific Premise: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:00:33 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Something’s a bit off about Maren (Taylor Russell) — when we first meet her, she looks like an ordinary teen just trying to finish high school and fit in with her new environment. But it’s…

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Bones And All Sucks the Marrow Of Its Horrific Premise: Review
Clint Worthington

Tim Burton Tries (And Fails) to Spice Up the Addams Family With His Wimpy Wednesday: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:00:24 +0000

The Pitch: They may be creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky, but one question has lingered for decades on the minds of every Addams Family fan — Where did they go to high school? Lucky for us, Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (with a little help from Tim Burton and the…

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Tim Burton Tries (And Fails) to Spice Up the Addams Family With His Wimpy Wednesday: Review
Clint Worthington

Why We’re So Obsessed With A Christmas Story 39 Years Later

Clint Worthington — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:32:37 +0000

Suppose you’re a red-blooded American growing up anywhere near a television for the last thirty years. In that case, chances are A Christmas Story is at least a tangential part of your holiday memories. Regardless of your thoughts on the film itself — I think it’s perfectly fine, if exceedingly…

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Why We’re So Obsessed With A Christmas Story 39 Years Later
Clint Worthington

Every Episode of Documentary Now!, Ranked From Worst to Best

Clint Worthington — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 17:07:22 +0000

Over its four seasons (or, as host Helen Mirren would have you believe, 53) on the air, IFC’s Documentary Now! has taken a methodical and comically genius eye to the art of documentary filmmaking. Creators Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Rhys Thomas, and Seth Meyers leverage their encyclopedic understanding of the…

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Every Episode of Documentary Now!, Ranked From Worst to Best
Clint Worthington

Emily Blunt Seeks Justice in the Transifixing Western Tragedy The English: Review

Clint Worthington — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:00:49 +0000

The Pitch: 1890, High Plains Kansas; a ramshackle hotel in the middle of nowhere. That’s where two souls, born in different worlds but bound by shared purpose, meet at the wrong end of a knife. One is Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), an English noblewoman on a mission to find the…

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Emily Blunt Seeks Justice in the Transifixing Western Tragedy The English: Review
Clint Worthington

What Ever Happened to the Kids from A Christmas Story?

Clint Worthington — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:15:06 +0000

Each month, Clint Worthington’s What Ever Happened To… catches us up with some of our favorite faces from our pop-culture past. It was updated in November 2022. We’ve all seen 1983’s A Christmas Story. The Bob Clark-directed holiday tale of little Ralphie and the many misadventures surrounding his ninth Christmas…

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What Ever Happened to the Kids from A Christmas Story?
Clint Worthington

All Quiet on the Western Front Is a Devastating Indictment of War: Review

Clint Worthington — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:00:37 +0000

The Pitch: It’s 1917 (no, not that one), and Germany is on the back foot fighting the French in the First World War. Piles of bodies stack up in the trenches of the Western Front — hundreds of thousands, just to advance and retreat over the same few hundred yards —…

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All Quiet on the Western Front Is a Devastating Indictment of War: Review
Clint Worthington

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Is a Horror Anthology Haunted By Creative Freedom: Review

Clint Worthington — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:01:49 +0000

The Pitch: A racist scavenger (Tim Blake Nelson) uncovers the ultimate score in the storage locker of a dead Nazi. A desperate grave robber (David Hewlett) gets more than he bargained for on his latest excursion. A medical examiner (F. Murray Abraham) autopsies a dead body from a mine explosion and…

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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Is a Horror Anthology Haunted By Creative Freedom: Review
Clint Worthington

George Clooney and Julia Roberts Reunite in Seaweed-Thin Romcom Ticket to Paradise: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:18:49 +0000

The Pitch: David (George Clooney) and Georgia (Julia Roberts) are two hugely successful, extremely divorced people, with 19 years of bitter animus between them. In fact, the only times they even see each other are for the major milestones in the life of their daughter, Lily (Kaitlin Dever), and even then they…

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George Clooney and Julia Roberts Reunite in Seaweed-Thin Romcom Ticket to Paradise: Review
Clint Worthington

The Peripheral Dresses Up Cyberpunk Ideas With a Dusty Rural Coat: Review

Clint Worthington — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:00:27 +0000

The Pitch: In an unnamed rural town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about a decade into our future, live the Fisher siblings — ex-Marine Burton (Jack Reynor) and his tech-savvy sister, Flynne (Chloe Grace Moretz). Together, they work to scrape together enough money to care for their ailing mother through day…

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The Peripheral Dresses Up Cyberpunk Ideas With a Dusty Rural Coat: Review
Clint Worthington

Chan-wook Park’s Decision to Leave Is a Sizzling Romantic Thriller: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 21:07:57 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: A mountain climber is found dead at the bottom of one of Busan’s most intimidating peaks. An accident? Probably. But ace Busan detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) still finds himself drawn to the man’s Chinese widow,…

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Chan-wook Park’s Decision to Leave Is a Sizzling Romantic Thriller: Review
Clint Worthington