‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: The Juice is Back But Will This Legacy Sequel Quench Anybody’s Thirst? | Venice
Thirty six years have passed since audiences were introduced to the weird and wonderful mind of filmmaker Tim Burton. His sophomore feature Beetlejuice – a... Read More
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‘Black Dog’ Review: Poetic Rehabilitation Drama Has Compassion For Man and Man’s Best Friend Led By an Extraordinary Eddie Peng
Major controversies surrounded the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games while they occurred, but it was only after they came to a close that the organisers were... Read More
‘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 bit obvious, somewhat reductive, and... Read More
‘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 of the 1960s with the... Read More
‘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 franchise Borderlands – credited to... Read More
‘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 of her novels. Hoover made... Read More
‘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, which in itself took inspiration... Read More
‘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 Cinematic Universe fandom and/or business... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Catwoman’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004)
“If you like this movie like i do, your rolling on the floor. Every second is purely genius. If you liked it for real, your... Read More
‘Twisters’ Review: Maybe the Real Tornadoes Were the Friends We Met Along the Way
When Jan de Bont’s Twister was released in May of 1996, disaster movies were on the precipice of a huge comeback, a renaissance they hadn’t... Read More
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