KATE dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, and Woody Harrelson Kate, the latest action film from Netflix, stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an assassin who goes on a manhunt through the streets of Tokyo after being poisoned and left with only 24 hours to...
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS dir. Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Simu Liu, Tony Leung, Awkwafina, Fala Chen, and Michelle Yeoh In 2018, the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened its doors to telling stories centered on people of color, providing the audiences with the rich, lush...
THE NIGHT HOUSE dir. David Bruckner, starring Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, and Vondie Curtis-Hall One of the main touchstones of The Night House is the power of secrets. It's Owen's (Jonikeit) secrets that gradually eat away at him until he's walled himself off from Beth...
BECKETT dir. Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Kripes, and Alicia Vikander Beckett, an action thriller about a man on the run in a foreign country, is yet another entry in a long list of movies where normal, everyday people are suddenly thrown...
THE SUICIDE SQUAD dir. James Gunn, starring Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, et al For the second time this year, Warner Brothers has a DCEU property that will unfortunately draw comparisons to an unfavorable film that was its predecessor. Such was the case with...
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...
