NIGHTMARE ALLEY dir. Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Richard Jenkins Nightmare Alley, a neo-noir thriller set in the late 1930s, is centered on Stanton Carlisle, an overly ambitious circus carny with a penchant for manipulating people through words. His games of...
BELFAST dir. Kenneth Branagh, starring Jude Hill, Caitríona Balfe, and Jamie Dornan Mostly known for his passion for the works of William Shakespeare (odd, considering he hasn't directed a Shakespeare story in two decades), writer/director Kenneth Branagh returned to his roots after having previously helmed the critically...
BLUF: Utterly fantastic, next-level science fiction; among the best literary adaptations ever. Everyone involved brought their A-game and have created a masterpiece. Denis Villeneuve has methodically constructed a consistently excellent film repertoire that seems to indicate that he had a singular goal: adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune....
BLUF: A terrific send-off to Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond, it manages to elevate his previous entries by addressing and/or tying off previous story threads, while also avoiding some potentially terrible cliché landmines. NOTE: I’ll be avoiding spoilers as much as possible. I’m going to get...
THE POWER OF THE DOG dir. Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee The Power of the Dog, written, directed, and produced by Jane Campion, harkens back to a time when cowboys reigned supreme and the American West was a vast, naked, unsettled...
By Jim Washburn November 11, 2021 BLUF: Eternals is a radical departure from the MCU formula audiences are trained to expect. Whether or not you enjoy it will likely boil down to how much you enjoy a contemplative drama vice the standard sci-fi action-adventure. Chloe Zhao’s Eternals is...
PASSING dir. Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, and Andre Holland Based on the 1929 novel written by Nella Larsen, the term "passing" deals with African Americans of incredibly light skin tone and their ability to maneuver through Caucasian circles as one of their own. This...
ETERNALS dir. Chloe Zhao, starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, et al Due to the events of Avengers: Endgame, the snap that brought about the return of half the universe's population kick starts the emergence: the awakening of a new Celestial, the gods of...
SPENCER dir. Pablo Larraín, starring Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, and Sally Hawkins Spencer, the fictionalized story of Princess Diana's final straw leading her to divorce Prince Charles and leave the Royal Family, can be categorized as a drama, but plays more as a psychological horror...
THE HARDER THEY FALL dir. Jeymes Samuel, starring Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, et. al The Harder They Fall, Netflix's latest big name release, shines a light on a number of noteworthy African American figures that existed during the time of the...
