This is a repost of a review originally published in 2023. Actor Jonathan Majors is about to have a substantial year. In addition to beginning his reign of multiverse-jumping terror […]
A remake of the 2019 Argentinian thriller 4×4 (and now adapted by Michael Arlen Ross), Locked tells the very stripped-down story of down-on-his-luck petty criminal Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) trying to […]
Playing more like a greatest hits package of sci-fit/action/horror movies of years past, and less like the trippy, brain-bending story it thinks it is, Ash comes courtesy of director/composer/actor Flying […]
In the pantheon of Disney characters, the only one as iconic and enduring as the Mouse of the House himself is perhaps Snow White, the fabled parent-less princess and star […]
In terms of actual box office dollars, brothers and directors Anthony and Joe Russo have to be the most successful filmmaking team in history, with such hits as Captain America: […]
When is stalking a celebrity funny? The right answer is “never,” but writer/director Jimmy Warden (who scripted Cocaine Bear) tries his damndest to convince us otherwise with Borderline, in which […]
The concept of having an action movie featuring a lead character who can feel no pain (thanks to a genetic condition) has a great deal of potential, especially when said […]
Early in Black Bag, the latest from director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp (who together made this year’s fantastic ghost story Presence, as well as the 2022 thriller Kimi), […]
If film is a preferred medium for transporting us to places and circumstances we might not otherwise experience, Rungano Nyoni’s deeply affecting (to nearly the point of put-off-ish-ness) On Becoming […]
Based on a 1982 short story by Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin, In the Lost Lands marks the latest collaboration between director/co-writer Paul W.S. Anderson (most of the […]
As wild as filmmaker Bong Joon Ho can get with films like Snowpiercer and The Host, it feels like he’s best known for his slightly more contemplative works, such as […]
Based on the 2019 documentary of the same name, Last Breath (directed by Alex Parkinson, who co-directed the doc with Richard da Costa) tells the remarkable story of a trio […]