‘English Teacher’ Review: The Schoolhouse Rocks in Brian Jordan Alvarez’s Hilarious Scholastic Comedy
FX enters the arena of educator comedies with English Teacher, a Brian Jordan Alvarez original that follows Evan Marquez as he teaches English and literature... Read More
Reviews
‘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
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 view than theater, theater is... Read More
‘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. It was a fresh and... Read More
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 to be an internal process... Read More
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