Review: ‘Empire Of Light’Olivia Colman And Micheal Ward Dazzle In Sam Mendes' Beautiful Ode...
Over the last few years, Sam Mendes has directed nothing but gigantic blockbusters; 007 films Skyfall and Spectre, followed by the single-shot war film 1917. As good-to-great as...
Review: ‘Hunt’'Squid Game' Star Lee Jung-jae’s Directorial Debut Is A Twisting Spy Thriller
South Korea in the early to mid 80s was a turbulent time as captured in Hunt. The constant threat from North Korea is always...
Review: ‘Spoiler Alert’Despite The Gimmicks, Jim Parsons And Ben Aldridge Proudly Lead Bittersweet Adaptation...
Cinematic love stories don’t always feel rooted in reality. Even those based on real-life often can’t pull the emotional weight they need to feel...
Review: ‘The Eternal Daughter’Tilda Swinton Gives An Incredible Dual Performance In Joanna Hogg's Haunting...
Old friends Tilda Swinton and director Joanna Hogg work together frequently, as they did recently in The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II, dramas with a bit...
Review: ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’Emma Corrin And Jack O'Connell Give In To Passion, But Within...
The pinnacle of so-hot-it's-been-banned literary classics definitively goes to D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. Suppressed for much of the 20th-century, it didn't...
Review: ‘Battle For Saipan’A Shallow War "Thriller" Highlighting A Lesser Known WWII Conflict
In the summer of 1944, a battle was waged on the Japanese island of Saipan known as Pacific D-Day. Battle for Saipan focuses on...
Review: ‘Emancipation’Will Smith And Antoine Fuqua Craft A Compelling Slavery-Era Chase Thriller, But That's...
Some years ago, Will Smith nearly took the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. A famously ultra-violent tale of revenge, Smith turned it down...
Review: ‘Violent Night’David Harbour Unleashes A Stockingful Of Violence As A Badass Santa Claus
I'm old enough to remember when Hulk Hogan starred in the atrocious Santa with Muscles. Tough guys suited up as Santa is something that nearly...
Review: ‘The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special’Mantis And Drax Are A Special Gift...
It's easy to overlook James Gunn's films as intentionally vulgar, violent, and goofy, but what people ignore is that he's quite good at hitting...
Review: ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’Rian Johnson's Murder Mystery Sequel Is Funnier, Sharper,...
When Rian Johnson released Knives Out in 2019, it was seen as just this starry palette cleanser, following the divisive reaction to The Last Jedi. Little did...