While on the press junket for “The Batman” lead actor Robert Pattison and director Matt Reeves often compared the titular character to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Reeves had Cobain in mind as he wrote the first act, shifting the perception of the billionaire playboy that we have seen across several films over the past 30-plus…
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Every once in a while, a film comes out that completely changes your perspective on the talents of an actor. Adam Sandler has emerged out of the depths of sophomoric comedies that have long lost their 90s luster to deliver his best performance to date in Uncut Gems, a gritty thriller about Howard Ratner, a…
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More than 50 years after the legendary and controversial 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race, its story is finally brought to the big screen by James Mangold in Ford v Ferrari. In 1964, Ford Vice President Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) proposed to CEO Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) that the company should acquire cash-strapped…
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The Satanic Panic of the late 1970s through the early 1990s gripped waves of PTA-members and home-alone-teens alike. Ten Halloweens ago, director/screenwriter Ty West delivered an often overlooked but amazingly crafted glimpse into the worst fears of a generation that may only now be getting the fanfare it deserved. While social media posts asking for…
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Four years after fellow comedy director Adam McKay made his dramatic debut with The Big Short, veteran comedy director Todd Phillips finally made his foray into drama with Joker, a gritty thriller that is reminiscent of Martin Scorcese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable man living in poverty with his mother…
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Released just six months after Bohemian Rhapsody, it’s hard for the Elton John fantasy-biopic Rocketman to escape comparisons to the Queen biopic, and while I had mixed feelings about Bohemian Rhapsody, it is a significantly better film overall than Rocketman. Taron Egerton, who has been connected to Elton John before by covering “I’m Still Standing” in Sing and starring alongside John…
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Over the past decade, companies have continuously hammered into a resource that seems to continuously make money hand over fist: 90s nostalgia. The film and television industry has consistently used this resource, reviving cancelled television shows and remaking, rebooting or creating sequels to films from the era. Nintendo has been well aware of this trend,…
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I initially started writing a review for Avengers: Endgame, but there is just so much to unpack that I think it is better reserved for a podcast. That said, this article is going to have a lot of spoilers from the movie. Please do not read on until you have seen the film. While the Marvel…
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On stage, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury is one of the biggest personalities in rock history between his flamboyant on-stage antics and ability to both get the crowd involved in their performances and feed off of their energy. While his biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was able to accurately portray his infectious on-stage persona, the rest of the film…
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Let’s just get this out of the way now: “Venom” is not a great movie, but some of the reviews of the film are simply way too harsh. In the end, the film is entertaining and has positive aspects to it, but we as society have been spoiled by good comic movies over the past…
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