In the grand tapestry of animated adventures, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse swings onto the screen as a highly anticipated sequel, defying expectations and propelling audiences into a web-slinging journey of interdimensional proportions. Helmed by the talented trio of Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, this cinematic spectacle continues the captivating saga of […]
It would never take much rebooting of Frank Herbert’s beloved “Dune” to be better than its 1984 disappointment helmed by David Lynch. Like “The Lord of the Rings” or Comic Book adaptions, the technology needed to be invented to match the imagination and world-building in the science fiction epic, long hailed the greatest of all
Silly; as it’s meant to be. This version’s entertainment focuses on Dr. Strange (Bill Hader) who is claiming that there was a mix-up at Wednesday’s (Chloe Grace Moretz) birth and that she is actually his daughter. “Isn’t it obvious?” he says; she clearly has inherited his scientific talents. This seems to play into Wednesday’s recent plans where—she being
Watching Paul Schrader’s latest film is like sitting in an early ’90s medical center waiting room. While you wait, there isn’t much to occupy your time except to look at paintings, magazines or the outdated furniture. Schrader creates a world in “The Card Counter” that’s inescapably dull on purpose. His characters have arrived at the
Will this agony ever end,” C-3PO says at one point. Anyone who believes Disney’s marketing ploy that, “this is the final Star Wars film,” hasn’t been paying attention. Nothing and no one is ever final in this franchise, which is the biggest turn off for non-fans. As you watch the eleventh film in the franchise,
It’s usually a bad sign when half of Hollywood’s A-list actors circle a project and then drop out. Everyone from Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Casey Affleck, and Mahershala Ali were at once attached to “Triple Frontier.” Writer/director J.C. Chandor has made 4 movies, 3 of them have been about the corruption caused by greed. This
Films about famous painters have always proven a challenge for filmmakers to connect with audiences. Julian Schnabel doesn’t speak English well, so there was an even greater challenge for the director working with his American and European actors. However, he used that alienated feeling in the film as one of many techniques to portray Vincent
“Life itself is an unreliable narrator”, states this film in so many ways so many times, it becomes the major theme, with the corollary, “Life will always surprise you”. So life is an unreliable narrator because we never know what is going to happen next. What may seem like tragedy and death can be deceptive, particularly if
There are endless stories from survivors and the monsters that carried out the Holocaust. For decades Hollywood has produced some of its most acclaimed films around this World War II horror. Every year it seems a handful of new mainstream, independent and foreign films shine a light on a different aspect of the tragic story. Operation
There are a handful of directors that hit their first film so far out of the part; their sophomore follow-up becomes an inevitable disappointment. Not so with Alex Garland, who made his directorial debut with Ex Machina four years ago. Of course, Garland had already pinned scripts to films Never Let Me Go and 28