As if it weren’t already obvious by Sony’s response to the leaked teaser, the interest in Spider-Man: No Way Home is high, so much so that according to Comicbook.com it’s the most viewed trailer of all time in its first 24 hours, beating Avengers: Endgame. It’s worth mentioning that what Sony doesn’t have is a […]
The teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home dropped yesterday and it’s pretty good though I wonder if I would feel the same about if it weren’t for Tom Holland, who’s pretty charismatic, and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) who’s the most interesting character in the trailer (which is notable because while I enjoyed his 2016 […]
I’m likely speaking to the converted at this point but I typically can’t stand remakes, particularly those that don’t do anything different than the original. Movies that do that aren’t worth the celluloid they’re filmed on. I bring this up because recently I learned that there’s a Japanese version of Vincenzo Natali’s Cube, which I […]
I enjoyed the trailer for The Toll, though I’ve had enough disappointments to know that a good trailer does not a good movie make. That being said, The Toll is damn good. Part of what makes it work is the writing, which is particularly strong though what’s also worth mentioning in that in the Toll […]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony and Disney are working to stop any leaks of the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer before it premieres tomorrow. My question is, why bother? I can’t speak for anyone else but I make it my business to not watch leaked trailers because more often than not they look like […]
I enjoyed Black Widow (2021) though tonally it was really odd in that it felt to me what we should have got was something akin to Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) or Jason Bourne (2016). To be fair what we finally got (because Widow was delayed A LOT) was kind of like those movies, […]
Alessio Ligouri’s Shortcut is a movie that you don’t see often enough, namely a simple story told well (and at times evocative of Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me – you might have noticed that I didn’t say ‘Stephen King’s Stand by Me‘ because while he may have written The Body, the short story the movie […]
There’re times Nikita’s Argunov’s Koma is a gorgeous movie to look at and the worlds depicted on screen are rendered in a beautiful, almost painterly fashion. Though there are also a few scenes – luckily few – that fall quickly into the uncanny valley, where you can sort of see that there’re more than a […]
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad premiered Friday with $12 million at the North American box office. By way of comparison, 2016’s Suicide Squad opened with $64 million. That’s a MASSIVE decline and while COVID wasn’t an issue in 2016, neither was WarnerMedia’s streaming platform, HBOMax. This is what happens when a company is willing to […]
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS (MILD THOUGH THEY MAY BE) FOR NETFLIX’S BLOOD RED SKY. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE, WATCH IT AND COME BACK. The vampires of Peter Thorwarth’s Blood Red Sky by my reckoning the best type: Mean, animalistic and defined entirely by a hunger for blood. Preferably human. The movie revolves […]
SCREENPHILES 