Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse is the best superhero animated film I’ve ever seen. It’s the best film I’ve seen this year. It may be the greatest Spider-Man film of all time. If all of those seem like exaggerations to you, then you haven’t seen the movie for yourself yet. And I’m sorry. In Spider-Man Into… [Read More]
Bird Box: In the Land of the Blind
You’ve heard “don’t make a sound” before in thrillers, but what about “don’t open your eyes”? Josh Malerman’s novel Bird Box was disturbing, spinning a story around a mother struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity is threatened with extinction. What initially appears to be a European illness quickly transforms into a widespread… [Read More]
Peppermint: Avenging Angel Momma
Seconds after we watch Jennifer Garner’s soccer mom grapple (and kill) a tattoed man in her car, she’s flashing back to years prior when she and her daughter had a run-in with a matching set of mother-daughter Girl Scout cookie-selling, classist mantra-slinging antagonists. Her daughter takes issue with Garner’s Riley North, questioning why she didn’t… [Read More]
Westworld Season 2 – The Door: Now That You’re Awake…
Having earned twenty-one Emmy nominations for its second season, Westworld returned to the world of the hosts and the humans with a passion, an unholy Maeve and Dolores fury. Driven by these electronic hosts who have now found their consciousness, the show propels them forward on a path of self-discovery that challenges the audience’s understanding of justice… [Read More]
The Nun: Fighting an Old Evil
The Nun is the fifth film in The Conjuring series, and a prequel to the action in James Wan’s first films. Here, a grizzled old priest and a young novitiate nun travel to Cârța Monastery in Romania in the middle of the twentieth century under Corin Hardy’s direction. After the success of his indie horror film The Hallow, Hardy was… [Read More]
Mission Impossible – Fallout: The World Needs Ethan Hunt
The sixth installment of the Mission Impossible films, and the second directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie (Rogue Nation), arrived this weekend with a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes ratings, the Justice League-impacting Henry Cavill mustache, and the promise of more death-defying stunts by the ageless Tom Cruise. But haven’t we seen it all, already? Blame Lorne Balfe’s score,… [Read More]
Blindspotting: Walk in His Shoes
We tend to judge what we don’t know, as complicated as another culture or as simple as the neighbor across the street who we don’t know. But in the film Blindspotting, we have a startling look into the world of two lifelong friends, one black and one white, who have much to teach us about… [Read More]
Crazy Rich Asians: A Cinderella Story
In Crazy Rich Asians, the Warner Bros.’ film based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling book, Constance Wu plays Rachel, a highly intelligent economics professor at New York University who accompanies her boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his friend’s high society wedding in Singapore. While they’re there, Rachel discovers that Nick’s family is actually a huge financial… [Read More]
Mile 22 – Who Will You Believe?
James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) has seen it all as a U.S. Marine and a member of a black ops team known as Overwatch. As the film opens, the team takes down a Russian safehouse stateside and executes the inhabitants. Fastforwarding a year and a half later, the team ends up grinding at desk jobs until… [Read More]
Throne of Atlantis – Commemorative Edition: One Rises from the Sea
Based on Geoff Johns’ Aquaman run in The New 52, DC’s Throne of Atlantis is a feature-length animated film that finds the Justice League facing off against threats from the deep that they have never seen before, only to be joined by the heir of the Earth and the Sea, Aquaman! Now, three years since it debuted, the film… [Read More]
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