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...
dir. Chris Palmer starring Jensen Ackles, Josh Duhamel, and Naya Rivera BLUF: DC’s animated movies are spread across a wide spectrum, and this one is an unfortunate misfire DC has been having a rough time with their live-action movies, but their animated movies have been, by and...
dir. Justin Lin starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, John Cena, et. al BLUF: By the tenth entry in this series, you should know what you’re getting into, and F9 takes everything to yet another level, love it or hate it… In a mere 20 years,...
FALSE POSITIVE dir. John Lee, starring Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, and Pierce Brosnan A woman walks down the street in slow motion in a trance, her face and the front of her shirt completely covered in blood. That's how False Positive starts, and as we rewind to...
LANSKY Choosing to open the movie on recreating of the famous 1971 Meyer Lansky Israeli interview, Lansky is a film of two concurrent stories: the rise of one of the most famous organized crime figures and a struggling writer who is contracted by Lansky in his...
INFINITE dir. Antoine Fuqua, starring Mark Whalberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, et al Adapted from the novel The Reincarnationist Papers, Infinite is the story of Evan McCauley as he slowly discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives. Diagnosed with Schizophrenia at an...
