A. S. Hamrah

A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs

Major film studios embracing AI, newspapers announcing the death of moviegoing, critics devoid of values: all of this can instill a great sense of defeat. We have to write against it. 

You’re Brutal, I’m Brutal

With its sympathetic portraits of Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, The Apprentice is, in the end, yet another bland Hollywood biopic.

Crash

“Movies and automobiles developed hand in hand, in every way.”

Objects in Space at a Moment in Time

Michael Mann’s biopic of Enzo Ferrari is suffused with a sense of death and loss. 

Persistence of Mission

More than ever, Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies are about a film industry in crisis.