REVIEW – “Black Adam”: Another Dark, Mindless Turn for DC’s Cinematic Footprint
Long gestating in WB/DC’s big screen coffers since 2014, if not longer, there seemed to be a mountain of promise in crafting a solo origin film for an antihero with…
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REVIEW – “TÁR”: Inside the Mind of an Unpredictable, Unwound Genius
When cinema can seek to challenge the collective brevity of both sight and sound, it equally makes deliberate, nearly abrasive brush strokes with the deeper recesses of one’s mind. A…
REVIEW – “My Policeman”: Loyalties Run Stagnant, in a Query of Forbidden Love
Musician and still budding actor Harry Styles seems to have a way of never letting one forget he’s around. That might be more so still on the radio than on…
REVIEW – “Rosaline”: Shakespeare, By Way of High School Drama
The oft fruitful merging of Ye Olde English writing and YA fiction is not quite an alien concept. Its known heyday in the 90s and 00s gave us the likes…
REVIEW – “Don’t Worry Darling”: An Anxious, Incomplete View of Utopia
Perhaps it was for the better that Warner’s marketing for their one remaining cross with adult sophistication on marquees this fall sustained a perpetual ambiguity. And that might be just…
REVIEW – “The Woman King”: Dahomey Forever? Perhaps.
Whenever the course of historical events translate to screen adaptation, its goal to sneak up on the viewer lends to highly mixed results. Place the viewer directly in front of…
REVIEW – “See How They Run”: Agatha Christie, By Way of Flies on the Wall
If one were to imagine 2022 as a year of filmic vindication, the examples wouldn’t be entirely obvious. That is, save for the detective caper subgenre. The first half of…
REVIEW – “Pinocchio”: It’s More Like a Game than a Disney Reboot
Legacy is immortal, neither provoked nor challenged by the passage of time. When a film captures the hearts of its audience the same way first nighters back in the day,…
REVIEW – “Barbarian”: Surprise and Terror, from the Comfort of an Airbnb
What can be said of a horror film whose plot subsists on huge story swings and plot turns that simply cannot be spoiled? Maybe not much unless it can be…
REVIEW – “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” Evangelical Scandal, Made Unserious
There may always be a tightrope act in trying to lift the veil of a squeaky clean public image. The best documentaries can either do the best job to unravel…