A24 On The Rocks

With the 2024 Oscar nominees being released yesterday, the A24 rocks crew looks back at a previous Best Picture winner and a film that inspired many A24 films: No Country For Old Men. Written and directed by the Coen Brothers, and based off a Cormac McCarthy book: No Country For Old Men won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (for Javier Bardem), and Best Adapted Screenplay. It foll...

Before the memes of Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems flooded the internet, there was another Safdie brother directed film that flooded the internet with memes, and that's the 2017 crime-thriller "Good Time." After the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson was looking to break from the pretty boy role he was typecasted as. Many say that "Good Time" was his breakout performance that made...

For this week's A24 vibe discussion, the A24 rocks crew brings on special guest and anime enthusiast CapiTanceTV for a Mt. Rushmore draft of animated films. As they draft their films, these cinephiles reminisce on some of their favorite childhood animated films and some animated films that aren't meant for children. Who will have the best Mt. Rushmore draft? Find "A24 On The Rocks&quo...

Menashe is a 2017 film loosely based off the real life of its lead actor: Menashe Lustig. It follows his struggles to regain custody of his child while adhering to the laws of his religion. Filmmaker Joshua Weinstein wanted to make a documentary film about the Hasidic Jewish community in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, but due to reticence from the community, Weinstein pivoted from...

A24 just released one of their biggest films of the year: The Iron Claw. It has a star studded cast of Zach Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Lily James. When wrestling fans heard that this was going to be a film, they knew they were in for a doozy. The Iron Claw is about the Von Erich wrestling family who infamously had a generation of siblings die from either a drug overdose or suicide. A24 rocks c...

Looking for a holiday film that may be a bit darker, more savory, combined with a little bite in the eggnog? Don't worry, the A24 Rocks crew has just the list for you. Kelley, Eric, Cole, and Kevin each give you recommendations of holiday films to disturb your family with around the Christmas tree. Or maybe: you don't like your family and want to lock yourself in your room and binge a few...

A Ghost Story is a 2017 supernatural drama starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. Written and Directed by David Lowery: this movie focuses on a man and a woman stuck in a stagnant relationship before the man dies in a car crash and becomes a ghost wrapped in the same sheets he was covered in at the morgue. As a ghost does: he becomes a voyeur of his partner, and the house that his energy is tied...

Ho-ho-ho, time to grab an eggnog, cozy up around the fire, and listen to the A24 Rocks crew reminisce on some of the best Christmas films that were ever made. As each film reviewer gives their list, each film will enter into a point system that will decide a collaborative Top 10 Christmas film list. So in the end: there will be one film knighted Emperor of the Mistletoe, President of the North Pol...

It Comes At Night is an apocalyptic horror film written and directed by A24 darling Trey Edward Schultz. It stars Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. and is about a family living in a remote cabin after a plague has seemingly caused a deadly pandemic. When a new family arrives at the cabin, it challenges the trust and paranoia of everyone involved...

On this A24 Vibe Discussion, these A24 reviewers have a Mt. Rushmore draft of their favorite Apocalyptic films. Zombies, deadly pandemics, nuclear war, climate disasters... what way will the world end in your favorite dystopian film? For this episode, Eric invited on his sister Caitlin Kiska, AKA "The Sultan of Cybersecurity." After they choose the four faces of their Mt. Rushmore, you d...

The A24 Rocks crew is on their 50th A24 film review! What's the 50th film in the A24 film catalog? That would be the 2017 WW2 Romantic Drama "The Exception." Starring Jai Courtney, Lily James, and Christopher Plummer: The Exception is about a troubled Nazi soldier, and a spy disguised as a housemaid, who are both working for the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in the early days of WW2. The soldier doesn'...

It was the beginnings of the internet, kids were sniffing glue instead of eating tide pods, people were getting slimed on Nickelodeon, and you could sit down and eat Trix while blasting Nirvana in your flannel and ripped jeans. Want some 90s nostalgia? Don't worry, these A24 fans have just as much appreciation for the films that came before A24, and to show that: they're giving you their top 10 fa...

The Lovers is a 2017 Dramedy starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts. Written and directed by Azazel Jacobs, this movie follows a married couple named Michael and Mary who both are cheating on each other behind their backs. When their son Joel calls and plans to visit, their adulterers (played by Aidan Gillan and Melora Walters) pressure them to finally come clean about their extramarital affairs. W...

The A24 Rocks crew brings a special Halloween treat for horror fans by reviewing the 1973 William Friedkin classic "The Exorcist." The Exorcist was adapted by the writer of the novel William Peter Blatty, and is considered one of the most successful horror films of all time, earning $1.8 billion in the box office accounting for inflation. It's about a 12 year old girl named Reagan an...

In this 2017 black comedy starring Cillian Murphy and Brie Larson: a couple IRA members look to make a gun deal in 1978 Boston. When one of their underlings appears to have assaulted the cousin of someone in the gun sales gang, the deal goes awry in quick and comedic fashion. Free Fire was directed by Ben Wheatley and executive produced by Martin Scorcese, and it also boasts the world record for l...

Since it's Halloween month, the A24 Rocks crew has decided to review an all time classic for their A24 Vibe Discussion: The Thing. Released in 1982 and directed by John Carpenter: The Thing is about a group of scientists at a remote research facility in Antarctica who encounter a Norwegian scientist from a neighboring research facility trying to kill a husky. When the Norwegian scientist attem...

Halloween month happened to line up with an A24 film that is becoming more well-known in horror film circles: The Blackcoat's Daughter. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Anthony Perkins who portrayed Norman Bates in Psycho), The Blackcoat's Daughter is about a girl named Kat (portrayed by Kiernan Shipka) whose parents seemingly forgot to pick her up for winter break from her C...

On today's A24 Vibe Discussion, Eric kicks off the Halloween month in style by speaking to Reya Mazzola, a Paranormal Anthropologist currently working on her PhD at Wayne State University in Detroit. Reya specifically focuses on the history of human relationships with ghosts and haunted places, a subject that pertains to many A24 horror films. Eric and Reya touch on many spooky subjects includ...

The first film A24 distributed in 2017 was Trespass Against Us, a crime drama starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. Directed by Adam Smith and written by Alastair Siddons: this movie follows a family of British crooks that have set up an RV Park in a field in Gloucestershire, England. Michael Fassbender plays our main character, Chad Cutler, and Brendan Gleeson plays the patriarch of th...

Welcome to Hell: where we geo-locate for free bdubs, hack speed limit signs, and ponder what it'd be like to be a cognizant satellite. The (aspiring) Demon Lord of Friendship answers burning curiosities such as: if you were bald, would you only mow the lawn with your shirt off? What do you think about playing pickup basketball with Adam Sandler? Check out our fair Demon Lord's website (hel...

The A24 rocks crew has finished reviewing the 2016 year of A24 and you know what that means: THE 2016 A24 OSCARS! Seven Oscar Isaac's will be given out tonight for the 2016 year of A24 including: best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, and best screenplay (original or adapted). How this will work is simple... democracy. Each review...

Now that the A24 Rocks screw has reviewed every single A24 film from 2013-2016, they've decided to have a Mt. Rushmore draft. The way it works: a draft order will be determined by a random number generator, and when one host picks a film, then no one else can pick that film. The draft will then move in a "snake draft" style. Four faces of Mt. Rushmore and four movies. And you, dear l...

A24's last film of 2016 was 20th Century Women, a slice of life drama featuring a star-studded cast that included Annette Benning, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig (director of Barbie), and Elle Fanning. Writer and Director Mike Mills was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for this film. It revolves around a teenager named Jamie (played by Lucas Jade Zumann), his single mom Dorothea (played by Annet...

The A24 rocks crew transports you to another era of the silver screen once again, this time they share their top ten 1970s films and invite Brian De Palma expert Ray Neeman on to share his top 10 as well. It was the time of Watergate, Vietnam, and psychedelic counter-culture for America in the 1970s: but how did that translate to film and pop culture? Many say the 70s was the "Golden Era of F...

The A24 rocks crew review their first "creature feature" horror film with The Monster starring Ella Ballentine and Zoe Kazan. The Monster is about a rocky relationship between an alcoholic mom named Kathy and her daughter Lizzy. Kathy must drop Lizzy off at her father's house several hours away, and on this road trip: they get in a car accident and soon find out that what caused the...