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Him follows Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers), a generational talent in college football who is so unbelievably hyped up by the entire sports-watching community that even before the NFL combine, he is expected to easily become one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
Read MoreNobody 2, the sequel to 2021’s Bob Odenkirk-plays-a-sadsack-who-gets-his-groove-back-by-resurrecting-his-abilities-as-a-master-assassin picture Nobody is an amiable, brisk goof with a game cast and some creative action.
Read MoreI’ll rip the band aid off early; The Conjuring: Last Rites is a bad, flaccid film that clocks in at an unholy 137 minutes. While the poor quality is baked into the final product (unenthusiastic direction, boring script), the badness is even worse when compared to what came previously.
Read MoreTo put it cattily, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey feels like Everything Everywhere All at Once if it were made by capital T capital K Theater Kids as opposed to capital I capital K Internet Kids.
Read MoreOver a mild weekend in the middle of August, the Austin Film Society hosted a four-day retrospective on the globally renowned art cinema director Tsai Ming-liang.
Read MoreThose with pretensions to auteur status must announce themselves, they must Hold Court. Schlesinger doesn't need to. He needn't bother himself with vulgar displays of power.
Read MoreOn the shores of Club Med, the possibilities of love are as endless as the sea itself. In the second two films of the series, Lina Wertmüller’s Swept Away and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, we see love’s demise as irreconcilable differences surface in the tumultuous throes of passion.
Read MoreFrancis Lawrence has thoroughly demonstrated that despite The Long Walk being over four decades late to the party inspired by its legacy, a thoughtful approach to a book adaptation is always the best way to make sure the soul of that book survives onto the screen. I only wish that this thoughtfulness had been infused into all of the movie instead of most of it.
Read MoreWith the summer coming to an end and temperatures coming down, fall is officially on the horizon. While many people are preparing for football season, us cinephiles are preparing for a different season: the fall film festivals.
Read MoreWhat was pitched to, former NFL linebacker, Brian Bosworth as a sincere and light-hearted action flick quickly turned into a badass biker gang epic that’s just as fun as it sounds.
Read MoreNobuhiko Obayashi, best known for his cult debut House (1977), built his reputation on the first version of chaos: a pop-art, kaleidoscopic heavy, absurdist horror-comedy that feels like cinema’s version of shedding.
Read MoreA strange and unlikely entry in the pseudo-genre of Action Sequels Better Than The Originals, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is a marvel of brutal action choreography visualized with an inky layer of paranoia thriller style.
Read MoreThe Island of Lost Souls was and remains the most accomplished in a long list of adaptations of H.G. Wells’ 1896 novella The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Read MoreAronofsky has met and exceeded the hype, crafting a crime thriller with real emotional heft.
Read MoreEve of Destruction feels like a literal blast from a video store past. Part 90s action flick, part cautionary tale of the near future, it’s also a lean melodrama with just enough complexity to withstand its 90-minute run time.
Read MoreIn 28 Years Later, the year is 2031. It’s the end of the world.
Read MoreZach Cregger’s Weapons places a neat spin on a typical horror story, mixing up the standard ingredients of children in danger, a small town torn apart, and interconnecting storylines.
Read MoreTogether takes the audience through a relationship journey full of attachment issues and bone-chilling body horror.
Read MoreThematically, the restoration of Kurosawa’s filmography is analogous to the reconstruction of his home country Japan, post-World War II. This rectification sentiment is a significant theme in Kurosawa’s noir Stray Dog (1949).
Read MoreIn 1974, the world was crying out… for snakes. One brave sound mixer by the name(s) of Art Names would answer that call with his sole directorial project: Snakes (aka Fangs.)
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