It’d been awhile since Will Smith had a real hit. While the Fresh Prince of Belair in Black who only weighed Seven Pounds as a Bad Boy was once all that and a bag of chips “in Miami,” a series of less-than-stellar films in the 2010s made it seem like Smith’s latter years might be…
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Uncut Gems is not Lunch Lady Adam Sandler or Happy Gilmore Sandler. It’s not even Spanglish or Punch-Drunk Love Sandler. This is a introspective actor taking a shot at what it means to be a twenty-first century person stuck in a cycle of self-destructive behavior and addiction….
I made the decision early on that I would wait to see Todd Phillips’ team-up with Joaquin Phoenix once it came out on home media. I wasn’t going to sit through what I’d heard about as a two-hour trip down a slowly degenerating road of mental illness and deep emotional hurt. Sure, it was loosely…
Alice Woodard (Emily Beecham) is a single mother – and a bioengineering botanist designing a plant that emits pollen to bring joy in humans. (Yeah, right.) Instead, in this slow-burning horror flick from Austrian director Jessica Hausner, the plant causes insidiously dangerous side effects in the people around Alice and in one poor, accidentally abandoned…
Young Dora (Isabela Moner) is the daughter of two explorers, who seek out ancient Inca treasure in the jungle for the purpose of research and learning. She has a healthy understanding of family, of the jungle, and of the collaboration that is required for humanity to exist alongside nature. What Dora lacks is an understanding…
In 1978, three Irish mobsters are caught up in an FBI sting. When their income is cut off, the three mobsters’ wives take matters into their own hands after being first ostracized and then attacked by their husband’s cronies. In The Kitchen, Melissa McCarthy’s Kathy Brennan, Tiffany Haddish’s Ruby O’Carroll, and Elisabeth Moss’ Claire Walsh…
From 1999 to 2001, Bruce Timm and Alan Dini offered an animated vision for the future of Gotham where Bruce Wayne was old but crime still threatened the peaceful existence of Gothamites. With Will Friedle voicing the character of Terry McGinnis AKA the new Batman, the show tackled more mature stories with a darker inclination…
The fourth season of Veronica Mars finds Kristen Bell back at home in Neptune as Veronica aids her father Keith’s (Enrico Colantoni) private eye business. She rejects Logan’s (Jason Dohring) marriage proposal, citing all of the pain she’s seen in broken relationships she has investigated, and looks into the reasons behind a bombing at a…
Sam Liu has directed Marvel and DC animated films for awhile now, with big-time stories on his resume, like All-Star Superman, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Planet Hulk, Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract. Each of these has followed a storyline from the…
In the sequel to Angelina Jolie’s star turn as Maleficent, Disney again flips the script in this live-action fantasy. Here, Aurora’s (Elle Fanning) mother-in-law-to-be Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) sets up a war between the humans and the Moors, the fairy and wood creatures. Aurora and her beloved, Prince Philip (Harris Dickinson), are swept up in…
