Tag: film review

Crafting a Blaxploitation-inspired, sci-fi-surrealist comedy is no light endeavor, especially for a first-time director. Such a mixture of seemingly disparate genres under inexperienced hands could…

Barbenheimer summer is in full swing and it would be fair to say that this past week has been one of the most important for…

If you hear the words ‘your place or mine,’ you immediately think of a movie with a steamy plot, sizzling chemistry and palpable energy that…

 “Wakanda Forever.” A phrase which serves as a promise that there is always a way up in the face of tremendous grief and hardship. This…

I went into this knowing nothing about the movie beyond the poster and maybe the logline. Based on that, I was expecting it to be…

Prior to the release of Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult classic film “Blade Runner,” science fiction in film and television was vastly different than it is…

Movies like “Mother!” are not allowed to exist. The studio system is in place precisely to keep movies this crazed, this passionate, this bold from…

Mass shootings have become so commonplace recently that most reports come with a weary resignation of “here we go again.” It’s enough to make any…

It’s the kind of opening you aren’t likely to forget anytime soon: as the credits fade out, the camera lingers on a cat watching dispassionately…

So rarely is Hollywood able to capture the electric magic of American summertime youth like fireflies in a mason jar.  The closest a director has…