Browsing: Reviews

Watching the trailer for “Hustlers” gives an impression about a female-centric con-job style film with lots of stripping and quick pacing. Most of the marketing efforts has been around selling that kind of tone and it being the type of female-helmed cast not seen since Oceans 8. Well if there’s a con job, it’s that […]

When you get around to the third film of an action franchise, there needs as with each installment to be something that happens to push the stakes (or at least the action) further than before. We need to continue to care about the characters at least enough to have us stick around for a few […]

”Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” is a genuinely solid horror film, and its effectiveness is all the more impressive since it only had a PG-13 rating to work with. Adapted for the screen by producer Guillermo del Toro from three volumes of illustrated horror novels for children, the film brings contemporary jump scares and […]

“Hobbs & Shaw” is the first spin-off film from the “Fast & Furious” franchise to finally come along. It’s the ninth film in the series, and the first to focus purely on only a few of the characters, Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham). It’s more of a […]

Quentin Tarantino is one of cinema’s contemporary auteurs. When you’re going into a Tarantino film, you have a strong sense of what you’re in for – a highly stylized, violent, mythic version of the world. His pantheon of “Kill Bill,” “Hateful Eight,” “Django Unchained,” “Pulp Fiction,” and others all fit into that genre. Now with […]

Stuber is one of those contemporary action movies that you can take almost anyone to see.

When Ari Aster hit the scene last year with his feature film debut, Hereditary, he made an immediate mark with horror critics by setting what many took to be a fresh approach to his pacing and tone. Now he’s back with his sophomore outing, Midsommar, and his unique approach continues to evolve and in its […]

“Marvel: Endgame” may have been the last of the main Avengers arc, but “Spider-Man: Far From Home” showcases that Marvel’s presence on the big screen is anything but fading.

“Yesterday“, starring Himesh Patel in his first theatrical role is an interesting entry into the wish-fulfillment family of films. Patel stars as Jack Malik, a bottom rung pub musician who plays Beatles covers to crowds of nearly a half dozen (and most of those his friends). One day he wakes up to find that the […]

The last several days of news cycles have included more than a few articles espousing the levels of graphic sex, nudity, drug abuse, and general debauchery to be found in HBO’s latest teen drama, Euphoria. The full-frontal penis count seems to nearly overshadowed much of the rest of the discourse. Every few years there’s a […]