I’ve been rewatching Ridley Scott’s Prometheus recently and while his reported weariness of dealing with the Alien is fairly obvious, what bears mentioning is that there are few directors with an eye as all-encompassing, as acute, as Scott’s. From the way its shot to the casting, special effects, prop design and costumes, everything just works […]
I saw Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania last week, and I’m wondering what all the dislike it about. Ant-Man has always been a palate cleanser of sorts and I can see why Peyton Reed would want to do something more expansive the third time around (and to be fair that’s the case with most comic […]
I just caught Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and for the most part I really enjoyed it. And while I have to shoot a review where I’ll go into greater detail, I did want to mention something I saw on Fatman Beyond. Mark didn’t particularly like the movie, but his reasons were a bit weird. […]
Mark Mylod’s The Menu by my reckoning is at its core a story about a cult leader/madman who lures a bunch of people to his stronghold and kills not only them, but himself. That the cult leader happens to be a chef, Chef Slowik (Ralph Finnes) and revolves around 12 people being invited to his […]
Based on the trailer for Nathaniel Martello-White’s The Strays one could be forgive to thinking that the movie is very much like Jordan Peele movies like Us, which is to say a horror movie with either vague or overtly supernatural overtones. And it isn’t, not at all. The story revolves around a woman, Neve (Ashley […]
I have to admit that for awhile I was wondering if Aaron Morehead and Justin Benson (Resolution, Spring, The Endless, etc) had lost their touch because while I was blown away by Resolution (2012) each subsequent film I’ve seen from the pair seemed to drop in my esteem. And it wasn’t that the followups were […]
As most people who care about such things are probably aware, when Warner Bros was rechristened Warner Bros Discovery, the new owners made cutting costs a priority. One way doing so is cancelling various projects, such as Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Batgirl, which saved the studio $90 million. Though recently James Gunn, the […]
What’s cool about werewolf films by my reckoning is their flexibility. They can be metaphors for sexual wakening, stories about coming into adulthood, whodunits or nothing more than a person changing to a beast. Vikingulven (or Viking Wolf) is the latter, which is to say that it appears to be saying nothing more than what […]
I’m not typically a fan of movies that depict characters that do things as the result of some vaguely defined mental illness because they’re often entirely geared toward sensationalism. And while such misinterpretations are the fuel that power most horror movies, sometimes they at least attempt something approaching reality. Which is what impresses me about […]
Apparently the sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022) is called The Batman – Part II, which is an interesting title considering not only that there was no The Batman – Part I but the first movie didn’t end with an indication that it was the first part of anything. That a sequel was expected […]
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