Alex Garland’s latest film, Warfare, is a confounding experience to say the least. And that’s coming from somebody who found themselves completely bowled over by Civil War. The filmmaker has returned rather quickly to the war genre, releasing this basically a year after his previous feature. Though on this go around, he is joined by […]
A WORKING MAN Is Carhartt-Costumed Action Cinema
Like Nicole Kidman told the world, we come to the movie theaters for magic. How that magic is delivered to an audience can vary from film to film. In the case of David Ayer’s latest, A Working Man, it’s delivered in the bed of a humongous pickup truck alongside bags of concrete, sledgehammers, and copious […]
MICKEY 17: A Brand-New Delight from Bong Joon Ho
Throughout Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, countless characters ask the titular hero a question that haunts us all: What’s it like to die? At times, it’s an inquiry that’s played for comedy. In other moments, it’s asked as a plea for comfort. Melding the drama and comedy of life, and subsequently death, is something that […]
BLACK BAG Sees Soderbergh Return To The Spy World
There are few examples in the world of cinema that are as thrilling as getting a new film from Steven Soderbergh. He’s a filmmaker that has continued to innovate and experiment throughout his entire career that exploded in 1989. In the decades that have followed, Soderbergh has been a filmmaker that, above all else, makes […]
DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA Is A Slick Take On European Heist Films
Disclaimer: I’ve come to learn that my theater played this film without subtitles, of which there is clearly meant to be a fair amount. I thought it was a stylistic choice in all honesty due to how the film is framed. So while I don’t believe I missed too much, and still greatly enjoyed the […]
THE SUBSTANCE: Another Masterful Genre Exercise From Coralie Fargeat
Many of the most acclaimed bedtime fables are anything but subtle; and there’s a good reason for that. After all, the story in question exists as a means to deliver a moral or a value to its audience. The same can be said about cautionary sci-fi tales. Even many of the greatest genre movies around […]