Reviews

‘Blink Twice’ Review: Zoë Kravitz’s Feminist ‘Get Out’ is Righteously Angry and Frustratingly Derivative

To call Blink Twice an updated, feminist version of Get Out carries a lot of implications all at once—it’s a… Read More

August 14, 2024

‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Fede Álvarez’s ‘Alien’ Sequel is a Sometimes Thrilling, Yet Synthetic Greatest Hits Album

Forty-five years ago, Ridley Scott’s Alien completely changed the game for science fiction filmmaking. It combined aspects of the B-movies… Read More

August 14, 2024

‘Borderlands’ Review: Lock This Disaster in a Vault and Throw Away the Key

Was Madame Web just the warm-up for a bigger blockbuster disaster on the horizon? Lionsgate’s adaptation of the video game… Read More

August 8, 2024

‘It Ends With Us’ Review: Maybe We Should Have Kept Colleen Hoover on BookTok

It was only a matter of time before author du jour Colleen Hoover received the film adaptation treatment of one… Read More

August 7, 2024

‘Duchess’ Review: Neil Marshall’s Charmless Guy Ritchie Rip-Off is a Female Empowerment Forgery

In 1998, Guy Ritchie erupted onto the British cinema scene with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The gangster movie,… Read More

August 5, 2024

How ‘Sing Sing’ and ‘Ghostlight’ Highlight the Power of Theater as Venues of Survival

Theater and cinema have always had a strange symbiotic relationship. While cinema has, over the decades, become more accessible to… Read More

August 2, 2024

‘Industry’ Season 3 Review:  It’s Time to Buy Stock in HBO’s Sexy, Live Wire Finance Drama

When HBO's Industry premiered in late 2020, it felt like Gen Z’s Succession with a little Skins in the game.… Read More

August 2, 2024

Faith, Heroes, Monsters, Scares, and Twists: Ranking the Films of M. Night Shyamalan

The state of cinema is ravaged with unoriginal, unfulfilling, and downright wasteful popcorn, blockbuster filmmaking. In the past, there used… Read More

August 2, 2024

The Film We Don’t Speak Of – Revisiting M. Night Shyamalan’s Masterpiece ‘The Village’ 20 Years Later [Retrospective]

The trailer for the upcoming film Trap proudly declares it to be “a new experience in the world of M.… Read More

August 2, 2024

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Review: Movies, Now Less Than Ever!

If ever there was a movie “for the fans,” it’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which requires an elevated level of Marvel… Read More

July 23, 2024

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