It’s somewhat fitting that Andrew Dominik’s second documentary subject, after multiple projects with English musician Nick Cave, is Bono. Cave and the U2 frontman…
Do you have two hours to kill and enjoy, say, breezy, brazenly derivative adventure movies? Well then, buckle up, because your prime weekend streaming…
Fear Street began life as a series of novels written by R.L. Stine, the Goosebumps mastermind and Juvenile Fiction equivalent of Stephen King. With…
The opening sequence of Gareth Evans’ new Netflix original Havoc — a hotly anticipated action epic from the director of the modern classic The…
It’s been eight years since The Raid director Gareth Evans served as the man behind the camera on a feature film (that would be…
While the title gives the impression that this is an Asylum-style mockbuster ripping off the little-loved Brad Pitt-starring Bullet Train, the new Bullet Train…
Much has been written about the veritable glut of garbage films put out by the various streaming services in the post-COVID landscape, to the…
In 1984, Jeffrey Katzenberg was appointed chairman of The Walt Disney Studios during the final production stages of The Black Cauldron, meaning at a…
After Stephen Cognetti injected some much needed life into the largely sterile and drab Hell House franchise with his previous film Hell House LLC…
Four decades later and the influence of Die Hard remains unimpeachable, so much so that its stature in action cinema serves as a functional…
The crime genre bleeds blue. Crimes tend to be bad, and that makes it easy to establish the police, by the nature of their…
The first film that came to this writer’s mind while watching Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s debut feature Tendaberry was Spike Lee’s 2020 short New York…
Shot on grainy 16mm and scored by loopy, synth approximations of classical instruments, Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy’s Dead Mail sets up a dialectical…
Rhetorically, the threatening specter of militarism looms just out of frame in Makbul Mubarak’s debut feature, Autobiography, a work extrapolated from the political and…
Watching the opening credits of Mimi Cave’s Holland, one would not be entirely remiss to recall the barren sound stage of Lars von Trier’s…
Director Craig Johnson has worked with alums of Saturday Night Live before: His 2014 film The Skeleton Twins featured nuanced leading performances from Kristen…
You could argue that it’s extremely ironic that The Electric State, an absolutely dismal movie about humanity learning to love corporate-branded A.I. robots rising…
It becomes clear very early on that the new documentary CHAOS: The Manson Murders is going to be largely incoherent. What is unclear is…