Adonis Creed is forced to confront his past in Creed III. After retiring on top after beating his old rival Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew) for the undisputed championship in South Africa, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) retires as an active boxer and focuses on training and promoting at his gym along with Tony “Little Duke”…
Fun alien action in an otherwise groanworthy film.
It has a few truly scary moments; however, the practically narrative-free experimental haunted house plot definitely isn’t for everyone
A darkly humorous mix of Child’s Play and The Terminator with some pop songs and dancing thrown in.
Disclosure: This review is based on a Rough Cut screener of The Devil Comes at Night, so any technical limitations have been ignored A washed-up boxer finds himself trapped in a house surrounded by a demonic cult in The Devil Comes at Night. Incoherent following a bar fight, Ben (Ryan Allen) is dropped off at…
A fictionalized version of the life of Marilyn Monroe is told in Blonde. As a child, Norma Jeane Mortenson was traumatized by the mental breakdown of her mother, Gladys Baker (Julianne Nicholson), leaving Norma to pine for the father she never knew. A decade later, Norma (Ana de Armas) is on the rise as blonde…
Update (9/16/2022): Since I wrote this review, Vera Drew posted a tweet clarifying the whole situation: This is a review of a film that will never be seen again, at least not in the form it premiered as part of Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival. Mere hours after the premiere, it was…
A teenager kidnapped by a serial killer receives phone calls from the ghosts of the killer’s victims in The Black Phone. Finney (Mason Thames) is a 13-year-old boy who is bullied at school and subjected at home to violent outbursts by his alcoholic father, Terrance (Jeremy Davies). One day, Finney is taken after school by…
A renowned theatre actor opens up about his wife’s death as he is driven around Hiroshima in Drive My Car. Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a veteran actor who has a unique relationship with his screenwriter wife Oto (Reika Kirishima). One day Otto suddenly dies, leaving Yasuke without closure about the state of their marriage….
A new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel hits the big screen with Dune: Part One. In 10191 A.G., Duke Leto I (Oscar Isaac) of House Atreides is assigned by the Emperor to the desert planet of Arrakis to takeover harvesting of the precious substance melange, also known as “spice.” Leto’s son Paul (Timothée…
