★★★★☆ 3.5 / 5 Stars DC is going outside the box. With Clayface, the studio has officially stepped into horror territory, delivering its first full-blown horror movie, and honestly? I hope this is the beginning of something special. Rather than going bigger, DC scaled down and leaned into a genre. Directed by James Watkins, … [Read more…]
★★★☆☆ 2.5 / 5 Stars I grew up playing the absolute shit out of Street Fighter II on the Super Nintendo, so I was genuinely looking forward to this movie. When you think back to the fighting games of the ’90s, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat are the two franchises that immediately come to … [Read more…]
★★★★★ 5.0 / 5 Stars Nathan Fielder is a fucking genius. Coming off The Rehearsal, Fielder delivers what might very well be his magnum opus with You Can See Everything, an extraordinary, thought-provoking, surreal, and deeply unsettling piece of filmmaking that kept me glued to the screen for nearly three hours. This is easily … [Read more…]
★★★★☆ 4.0 / 5 Stars Having literally just finished reading Daniel Kraus’s fantastic novel Whalefall before seeing Brian Duffield’s film adaptation, I went into this one hoping it would do justice to one of the most insane survival stories I’ve read in a while. And honestly? It fucking delivers. Do I think the book … [Read more…]
★★★☆☆ 2.5 / 5 Stars There are some movies that mean more to you than just being movies. David Fincher’s The Social Network is one of those films for me. I remember seeing it in university, and it has stuck with me ever since. I genuinely believe it’s one of the defining films of … [Read more…]
★★☆☆☆ 2.0 / 5 Stars The next Colleen Hoover adaptation is here, and this time it’s Verity, starring Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett and Dakota Johnson. Directed by Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer, The Big Sick), this is a bit of a departure from the director’s usual comedic territory. The film follows Lowen (Dakota … [Read more…]
★★★★☆ 4.0 / 5 Stars SPOILER WARNING: This review discusses a major structural reveal and the ending of Digger. Tom Cruise is finally doing a movie that isn’t part of a franchise, and somehow Digger feels like exactly the kind of insane swing you would hope for from a filmmaker like Alejandro G. Iñárritu. … [Read more…]
★★★☆☆ 3.0 / 5 Stars Heart of the Beast is the kind of simple, old-school survival movie that knows exactly what it wants to be — and honestly, I had a great time with it. David Ayer’s new film stars Brad Pitt as an Army veteran who, along with his veteran combat dog Odin, … [Read more…]
★★★★★ 4.5 / 5 Stars Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime is one of the weirdest, most fascinating, and flat-out entertaining movies I’ve seen all year. It’s a movie about To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen, online culture, ambition, obsession, morality, and the strange machinery behind one of the most infamous television shows of the 2000s. Somehow, … [Read more…]
★★★★★ 4.5 / 5 Stars Hot off Barbarian and Weapons, two fantastic horror entries, Zach Cregger takes on Resident Evil, a franchise that’s been around for nearly 30 years with a diehard PlayStation fanbase, close to a dozen games, and now eight movie adaptations. This is a huge departure from the Milla Jovovich/Paul W.S. … [Read more…]