PREY dir. Dan Trachtenberg, starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, and Dane DiLiegro BLUF: An excellent action/horror film, and the best addition to the Predator franchise since the original (and by a massive margin). Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 Predator is, in my opinion, a perfect movie. At least, as perfect...
RESURRECTION dir. Andrew Semans, starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, and Michael Esper Margaret leads a successful and orderly life, perfectly balancing the demands of her busy career and single parenthood to her fiercely independent daughter Abbie. Everything is under control. But that careful balance is...
THE GRAY MAN dir. The Russos, starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, and Rege-Jean Page The Gray Man, a story of a CIA aset who stumbles upon a number of agency secrets that could be damning for his superiors, manages to trigger a...
NOPE dir. Jordan Peele, starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yuen Nope, a dark pop nightmare of uncanny science fiction and complex social thriller that unpacks the seeds of violence, risk and opportunism that are inseparable from the romanticized history of the American West, and from...
THE FORGIVEN dir. John Michael McDonagh, starring Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, and Matt Smith Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local...
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER dir. Taika Waititi, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder finds the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a search for self-discovery. But Thor’s retirement is...
THE BLACK PHONE dir. Scott Derrickson, starring Mason Thames, Madeline McGraw, Ethan Hawke and Jeremey Davies "Scream and I will gut you and strangle you with your own intestines." That's the vibe of The Black Phone, the latest supernatural horror movie co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson. As...
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER dir. Taika Waititi, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Tessa Thompson Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder finds the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a search for self-discovery. But Thor’s retirement is...
A MAN OF INTEGRITY dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, starring Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Bayzai, and Nasim Adabi Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working...
SPIDERHEAD dir. Joseph Kosinski, starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett Two convicts living in a near-future society grapple with their pasts while trapped in a facility that allows prisoners to reduce their sentence time by volunteering for experiments using emotion-altering drugs, which are run by...
