NINE DAYS dir. Edson Oda, starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Bill Skarsgard, and Tony Hale Nine Days, a supernatural drama, revolves around Will, a man who interviews a number of unborn souls to determine which one will be given a chance at life. Working out...
THE GREEN KNIGHT dir. David Lowery, starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Sean Harris, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Ralph Ineson, et al Expectations are a tricky thing. On the one hand, an audience can hype up a project to the point where the finalized product can't possibly measure...
dir. Robert Schwentke, starring Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Iko Uwais, Samara Weaving Snake Eyes, the latest attempt at a refresh of the G.I. Joe film franchise, stars Henry Dry Eye Golding as a fighter with a mysterious past. After seeing his father killed by an assassin,...
PIG dir. Michael Sarnoski, starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin When I heard "Nicolas Cage hunts for his stolen truffle pig" as the synopsis of this movie, I laughed. I laughed long and heartily and thought of course this is a movie that would star...
GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE dir. Navot Papushado, starring Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, et al Sam was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet, an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. After this life-altering event, she spends her youth raised by The...
BLACK WIDOW dir. Cate Shortland, starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachael Weiss, et. al What’s the best way to handle a movie where the lead character has already died in a previous film? Why should audiences care about the stakes when we’ve already seen some...
THE TOMORROW WAR dir. Chis McKay starring Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin The Tomorrow War, an original science fiction film produced by Paramount Pictures and distributed by Amazon, deals with the concept of sending present-day soldiers to fight a war years into the future....
NO SUDDEN MOVE dir. Steven Soderbergh starring Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm, David Harbour, et. al The one constant in the world, the one thing that keeps society from tearing itself apart is the fact that at some point in every crime movie, the plan...
ZOLA dir. Janicza Bravo starring Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, and Colman Domingo Based off a 2015 Twitter thread of nearly 150 tweets, Zola's social media-to-film transition is an interesting look the possibilities of story inspirations in Hollywood. In this instance, the story told to us by A’Ziah...
BLACK WIDOW dir. Cate Shortland, starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachael Weiss, et. al What's the best way to handle a movie where the lead character has already died in a previous film? Why should audiences care about the stakes when we've already seen some...
