PRESS RELEASE: JANUARY 5, 2022 North Carolina Film Critics Association Announces Winners for Best of 2021 The Power of the Dog Earns Six Honors Including Best Narrative Film and Director The North Carolina Film Critics Association is pleased to announce the winners for the tenth annual awards for...
Note: I will cover some spoilers, but I will leave them for the end and annotate that when they start.BLUF: When the gas tank is empty, and the studio threatens to exploit your IP, you set a $190 million dumpster fire and laugh at any...
SPRITWALKER dir. Yoon Jae-geun, starring Yoon Kye-sang, Park Yong-woo, Lim Ji-yeon, and Yoo Seung-mok After waking up from a car crash unable to remember anything about his life, a man begins regaining consciousness in a new body every 12 hours. Now, he must piece together his identity,...
THE KING'S MAN dir. Matthew Vaughn, starring Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Arterton, et al The King's Man, an alternate timeline film and the third movie in the franchise, diverts from the contemporary setting of the initial two outings and instead delivers us a decades-removed...
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME dir. Jon Watts, starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, et. al In Amazing Fantasy issue 15, readers were treated to a red and blue superhero swinging through the air with a man almost casually tucked under his arm as if he...
THE FRENCH DISPATCH dir. Wes Anderson, starring Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Lea Seydoux, Timothee Chalamet, Bill Murray, et al The French Dispatch, the tenth film by director Wes Anderson is both his most ambitious and most esoteric to date. Deciding to forego his usual...
The Southeastern Film Critics Association Names Jane Campion’s ‘The Power of the Dog’ as the Best Picture of 2021 Campion’s haunting and soulful western also won for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director ATLANTA, DECEMBER 13, 2021 – The...
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...
Poprika host Seed reviews the latest Netflix drama, Passing. https://soundcloud.com/poprika-podcast/passing-review?si=ea60b7083f754d30a9afd61ed994ff3a ...
