Joel and Ethan Coen’s movies include some of the dumbest criminals in film history. In Raising Arizona, there is H.I. McDunnough who is always in trouble. Burn After Reading has Linda a bit dull and her himbo partner Chad who are completely clueless about what’s going on. The Big Lebowski sees Walter, who thinks he …
A Different Man defies genre classification. You may say the movie is a psychological thriller or perhaps a dramatic satire but I prefer to think of it as a sick little joke of a film, and this should be taken as a compliment. In both Charlie Kaufman’s style and Franz Kafka’s tradition, Schimberg the writer/director …
When the trailers for Argylle boast of a movie “from the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughn,” there’s something they’re not telling you (besides its actual twists), despite the advertising, this is Vaughn’s sweetest-natured film in years. (Maybe that is the twist.) That does not mean however that his latest semi-comic thriller lacks onscreen violence or …
One of the most productive directors in Hollywood, Ridley Scott has been churning out movies consistently ever since he first made a splash with Alien, way back in 1979. Regardless of whether it’s historical drama, sci-fi, or comedy, some things always seem to be in films by Scott. A strong focus on visual design and …
Zack Snyder movies, whether you like them or not, always seem to require a lot of digestion. But in this instance, after watching his 134 minutes of an adventurous and partly blurred half-plastic film Rebel Moon — Part 1: A Child of Fire, there is little urge to dissect its many shortcomings. Rebel Moon is …
Story Asha (Ariana DeBose) discovers that her beloved King Magnifico (Chris Pine) is a fake, who is defrauding innocent people of Rosas, so she decides to take the law into her own hands. She is unaware that someone up there is watching. Review If you have ever been enchanted by any of Walt Disney’s previous …
He’s back! John Woo returns with Silent Night for his first Hollywood film since 2003’s Paycheck. Though it may not reach the heights of his early Hong Kong action flicks like The Killer or the crazy thrills of his American ventures in the 90s like Face/Off. There are a few moments that remind you why …
Dan hates having his photo taken. There’s a good reason for that though, he has spent the last few decades living undercover in Buffalo with his wife Jessica and their three kids, hiding from his previous life as a contract killer. That’s the intriguing kernel of an idea behind The Family Plan. However, the script …
When does a reboot not become a reboot? Perhaps when it is the Mean Girls remake based on the 2017 Broadway musical that was adapted from the 2004 film, itself loosely based on Queen Bees And Wannabes, a non-fiction parenting book published in 2002. However, it can appear as if nu-Mean Girls comes with a …
It shouldn’t work for a haunted-swimming-pool horror – if I may say so myself and this is like a subgenre that barely exists. The question isn’t whether they can do it anymore (like why not try…not going in?), but when will the audience get tired of watching characters go back and forth between dry clothes …
