Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a messy cacophony of sounds and images that serve as a good Spider-Man movie, but also kind of a throwaway.

Crime 101: Neo-Noir At Its Most Basic

With a neo-noir tone, a sleek L.A. setting and a cop versus criminal plot, Layton’s Crime 101 takes a page from Michael Mann’s oeuvre but struggles to pull off a heist movie with any real style.

ReviewsAlix MamminaMarch 20, 2026Crime 101, Chris Hemsworth, Bart Layton, Nick Nolte, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry, Mark RuffaloComment

Watching Snowpiercer on Ketamine, or: How I Learned to […] Love Mickey 17

In adapting the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, director Bong Joon Ho makes the great decision to add 10 more lifetimes and change Mickey’s background from middle- to working-class, all in service of the often funny and always scathing critiques of modern capital that define his work.

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