Emerald Fennell’s second feature, Saltburn, washes over your senses and can overload in moments. Not in a negative sense, but more so a tip to the cap of her visual sense of storytelling alongside the framing of cinematography of Linus Sandgren. When the weather is hot, you feel the heat radiating off people, objects, and […]
November 15, 2023
What’s scarier than a murder dawning a pilgrim outfit out for revenge in a small town known as the epicenter for the Thanksgiving holiday? Some people would argue venturing into the wild abyss of Black Friday shopping among those willing to stampede through others for that marked-down coffee pot. Sixteen years ago, director Eli Roth […]
November 15, 2023
I have watched enough football in my day to know when a man is at the end of his rope and clinging to anything to drag him out of that pit of despair. When New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones threw his then league-leading 10th interception with 4:22 to go in the 4th quarter, only […]
November 13, 2023
Sports fans always love themselves a good underdog story. What fun is it for the New York Yankees to always win the World Series? The scrappy, “nobody expected us to be here” runs gain a massive outpouring from the public. That, too, extends to the cinema realm. Everybody has a memory of The Mighty Ducks, […]
November 13, 2023
Spoilers for Secret Invasion and The Marvels are ahead. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Can someone please think of the Skrulls? Some of us either have or are about to see The Marvels and justifiably will like the chemistry between Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan, and Monica Rambeau despite some shortcomings. I did enjoy it, […]
November 11, 2023
This review was originally published as part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 New York Film Festival coverage. It is now out on Netflix. The aura given by the unnamed hitman (played by Michael Fassbender) we first meet at the top floor in a WeWork building in Paris as he surveys the next contracted target is of […]
November 10, 2023
When it seems you have lost your way, sometimes you must return to basics and follow the formula that won your collective hearts and minds in the first place. There have been stories around the communal campfire that Marvel as an entity has lost some heat off its fastball. The sheer expectations after Avengers: Endgame […]
November 8, 2023
Quiz Lady knows what you expect involving a comedy that’s also heartfelt, combining opposite siblings. It’s even to the extent of incorporating other scenarios you would recognize. Sandra Oh and Awkafina could have easily swamped characters in another prototypical vision of what this film could be. Jessica Yu’s directorial vision places the actresses places them […]
November 7, 2023
They say that one of the biggest signs to run when looking for a new job is when you hear the phrase,” We’re a family here.” Perhaps the employees of global conglomerate Mallard should have heeded that before signing on the dotted line. The Mill is the latest entry in many dystopian excavations of what […]
November 7, 2023
Love is both a rewarding experience and one of the biggest games of chance you’ll ever play. It’s almost a guarantee that it will never look the same as the point in time you obtained it. Some couples grow closer together as they reconfigure who they are, and others realize the puzzle pieces don’t fit […]
November 7, 2023
Omi-Man’s ultimate homicidal postal moment at the end of Invincible season one was always going to have immense ramifications extending beyond Mark a breath away from dying. What I appreciate from “A Lesson For Your Next Life” is that it approaches Where I Really Come From’s final moments from an extended range of levels. A […]
November 6, 2023