Zach Laws

Zach Laws Pro

Independent filmmaker. Card-carrying cinephile my whole life. Writer at Gold Derby.

Favorite films

  • Apocalypse Now
  • Blue Velvet
  • Fargo
  • GoodFellas

Recent activity

All
  • War of the Worlds

  • Time and Water

  • Married to the Mob

  • The Way Back

Recent reviews

More
War of the Worlds
Liked Rewatched

35mm at the New Beverly. Crazy how Spielberg made two of the definitive post-9/11 movies in the same year.

Married to the Mob
Liked Rewatched

Top tier Demme. Also I always forget he uses “Goodbye Horses” in this. Plays very differently than it does in Lambs, that’s for sure.

Popular reviews

More
Amadeus
Liked Rewatched

4K restoration at the Aero.

There is perhaps no greater curse than to possess a love of art while lacking the talent to create it. The brilliance of this film is in telling the story of a sublime artist through the eyes of a mediocre one, so that we may better understand what it means to be blessed with a gift from the gods.

Following

117