If you haven’t noticed, there has been a recent abundance of films telling the stories of the “corporate underdog.” Blackberry is an entertaining, documentary-style telling of the Canadian-born company with the phone market in its hand (and subsequently lost it all). Air chronicled the Titan shoe company’s pursuit of the greatest player who ever laced […]
June 2, 2023
2020’s Becky showed what happens when a Neo-Nazi group headed by Kevin James breaks into the home of a pissed-off, angsty 14-year-old teenage girl. Don’t expect any cutesy Kevin McCallister-like traps (although the blow torch in the original Home Alone was a lot) to stall the intruders while help comes – oh no. Becky served […]
May 31, 2023
How’s that old saying go? Ahh, yes – the wrong place at the wrong time. We can tweak this a bit, referring to love. Almost every person has “the one that got away.” You envisioned an entire life with them – crossing from significant milestones to the next. Then, for whatever reason, it doesn’t happen. […]
May 31, 2023
Writer-director Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl begins with an intimate prayer fixated upon the gaze of 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen). You’ll notice how cinematographer Brian Lannin utilizes light to distill what perceived pureness is inside a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky. At first, sunlight is filtered through the confines of church windows. Jem and […]
May 11, 2023
Ella Patel (Dianna Agron) is nearing her 38th birthday, and her life couldn’t be better. She has a beautiful home, a fantastic career as an in-demand interior designer, and an attentive doctor husband, Aiden (Jay Ali), whom her passion is still burning for after 10 years of marriage. Despite this fulfillment, writer-director Alexis Jacknow presents […]
April 27, 2023
In the old days of professional wrestling, breaking character was considered a cardinal sin. (or kayfabe). With social media, keeping the illusion of separation going is almost impossible. These performers are real people, after all. Previous series like Total Divas, Miz and Mrs, and Rhodes To the Top have served to normalize somewhat the people […]
March 29, 2023
If you approach 65 from the matter of the emotionality it tries to build, the picture (somewhat) becomes clearer. We first meet a pilot named Mills (Adam Driver), who lives on an advanced planet called Solaris with his daughter Nevine (Chloe Coleman) and wife. Unfortunately, Nevine is extremely sick, so to pay for treatment, Mills […]
March 17, 2023
Late-night television is a tricky business, and there is no shortage of people who covet the top spot. The Jay Leno/David Letterman feud continued for years after Leno unexpectedly took Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show seat in 1992. There’s always pressure to have the most prominent guests, gags (Carpool Karaoke and whatnot), and soundbites to stay […]
March 17, 2023
Caution: Spoilers for Creed III ahead. If you were one of the many people who went to see Creed III this past weekend, you would note that this would be the first in the trilogy that genuinely felt like an Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) story. That’s not to say there isn’t Rocky franchise DNA […]
March 7, 2023
Wrestling fans are currently living in one of women’s wrestling’s most remarkable periods. From WWE, AEW, NJPW, and the indies, these women athletes repeatedly break glass ceilings, records, and expectations. Just three years ago, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, and Ronda Rousey headlined Wrestlemania 35. Bayley and Sasha Banks had an unforgettable 30+ minute Iron Woman […]
March 6, 2023
In a capitalistic society, there will always be a winner and a loser. Unfortunately, that means things get made for mass consumption at the expense of the less fortunate. A parasitic relationship that, quite frankly, companies find themselves chomping at the bit to exploit. Nocebo is not a horror/thriller film that conceals its message. Director […]
March 2, 2023