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Silent Night represents John Woo’s return to Hollywood after a twenty year absence. Trailers breathlessly proclaim him to be “the Michelangelo of the Action...
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Silent Night represents John Woo’s return to Hollywood after a twenty year absence. Trailers breathlessly proclaim him to be “the Michelangelo of the Action...
Godzilla Minus One sees the titular King of the Monsters simultaneously taken back to basics and pushed forward to reflect the anxiety of contemporary...
To say that Hayao Miyazaki is a brilliant filmmaker and probably the greatest animated film director of all time is a foregone conclusion. It...
Concrete Utopia, South Korea’s nomination for Best Foreign Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, is a tense thriller, a particularly honest class commentary, a...
The Expendables has always been a series that was better in concept than execution. Stallone envisioned it as both a reunion tour for the...
Taika Waititi is known for his goofy, manic, offbeat style of writing and directing. In Next Goal Wins, he applies this lens to the...
Showdown at the Grand is about the power of movies to give our lives mythological meaning and the joy of finding your niche of...
If ever a movie could be said to be “of its time,” it’s Love Virtually. This movie is a satire of all-consuming modern technology....
The Kill Room has a clever and largely original plot. If only they had made a better movie out of it. My problem with...
The Halloween season is in full swing here in the halls of Toxic Nostalgia Manor where the spirits haunt the home theater and the...
Judy Garland’s only animated role could have been a classic… but for who? There seems to be an unwritten rule that any review...
Past Lives is about nonsense, but not the nonsense we normally talk about in this space. No supermen from another world are here to...
Killers of the Flower Moon is flabby, unfocused, and at times, scattershot. It’s also a masterpiece. Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese develops and embellishes themes...
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies It was a brisk fifty-five degrees...
Head Count is a true surprise: an unheralded low budget release from a first time feature director (or in this case, a directing team)...
Have you ever gotten excited to see a movie and then decided that maybe you don’t want to see it when every review you...
Hudson Hawk is the 1991 comedy, conceived by and starring Bruce Willis. In its day it was lambasted and labeled a bomb. Siskel and...
A few weeks before the release of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan told Variety that “some people leave the movie absolutely devastated.” My response at the...
I normally do not concern myself with the general critical reaction for the films I’m tasked to write about but Hidden Strike, the much...
Like most Stephen King fans, I am obsessed with the man. I mean, his writing is pure pop culture with a healthy glug of...
They say hindsight is 20/20. So with that in mind, I’ll be looking at back at some pop culture of the past with the...
Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie has been a staple figure in the pop culture landscape for reasons both good and bad, as the...
Streetwise is another entry in the recent wave of neo-noir coming from Mainland China that includes some great films like A Touch of Sin...
“Theory will only take you so far.” We hear this over and over in Oppenheimer, as the protagonist and his fellow scientists move from...