Frank Mengarelli takes a look at the Netflix movie taking the world by storm as he brings us his BLONDE review. A look at the rise to fame and the epic demise of actress Marilyn Monroe, one of the biggest stars in the world. BLONDE accomplishes exactly what it sets out to; it absolutely makes…
A huge thanks to Frank Mengarelli for this wonderful El Camino review! Six years after the finale, Vince Gilligan and company return to the world of Breaking Bad to close the story of Jesse Pinkman. The film, with its two-hour runtime, is noticeably not nearly as taut as a single episode of Breaking Bad. Consisting…
JOKER is a powder keg eruption of chaos that not only chronicles one man’s decent into sheer madness, but also a society divided by economic and cultural segregation that is just waiting for one small spark to allow itself to implode and allow anarchy to reign. Todd Phillips finally, after years of making Warner Brothers…
Couple the relatability and seriousness of Jackie Brown with the stylized revisionist history of Inglorious Basterds and one will find Once Upon a Time in Hollywood not only being peak Tarantino, but arguably his best film. The picture is not what it seems; it’s a story about the true friendship of a fading movie star…
Warner Brothers’ latest entrance into the DCEU is many things. It is a fun and action-packed superhero movie that has (actually funny) humor, with a wickedly marvelous villain in Mark Strong; yet the film is consistent with the ones that came before in keeping in line with social commentary. While Shazam! is an overly pleasant…
S. Craig Zahler’s latest film plays like a perverse and transgressive opera of an almost forgotten world that cascades into a fierce and harrowing antiheroes journey. Pride, honor, and sacrifice propels the trio of main characters forward, all colored in with just enough development that leaves mystery and intrigue as to remind the audience that…
Nineteen years later, filmmaker M Night Shyamalan has finally closed his Unbreakable trilogy. Sam Jackson and Bruce Willis do not skip a beat, re-entering their seminal early 00s characters while James McAvoy expands upon his already career-high performance as The Horde. Shyamalan’s final entry to the journey of David Dunn, Elijah Price, and Kevin Wendell…
James Wan’s Aquaman is the precise injection that Warner Brothers needed after their inconsistent handling of the DCEU; it is an incredibly fun adventure film stocked full of fantastical world building, an interwoven storyline, and a great ensemble that delivers with colorful performances. Aquaman is everything a comic book movie should be and is one…
Sylvester Stallone has lived a dual life in 2018. He gave us Creed II while also completing filming on Rambo: The Last Blood, but he also has starred in a few direct to VOD flicks. The first, Escape Plan 2, was a monumental disappointment, especially for those who enjoyed the first film, and his latest,…
John Huston’s The Man Who Would be King is a cinematic feat. It is a remarkable fable, tracking two con men as well as adventures who trek deep into a dangerous land with the design of ruling a region where white men have not set foot since Alexander the Great. The film encompasses engrossing performances,…
Some will say that Lars von Trier’s latest film, The House that Jack Built is an overly self-indulgent ego stroke, sprinkled throughout with self-gratifying homages. Others will say that the film is a unique and important work of art. Both are right. Lars von Trier does what he does best, taking the audience through a…
Creed II was able to achieve something that Rocky II was unable to do; parlay all the emotion and success from the first film and create a sequel that surpasses the first. The next installment of the Rocky franchise is a surreal experience. The emotional linchpin of the film is the father and son story…
The latest incarnation of the Halloween franchise offers itself, much like any other film in the series featuring Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her seminal role of Laurie Strode save for the original sequel, as a soft reboot. Apparently, this is the latest film that disbands any other sequel, including the original follow-up, Halloween: H20, and…
Coming off the heels of the Academy darling, La La Land, filmmaker Damien Chazelle has turned into quite the auteur; reteaming with Ryan Gosling (his generation’s Paul Newman), the two forge a very personal and intimate story of not the moon landing, or a film about NASA, or American pride, but a film about Neil…
Netflix has just released their finest original content when it comes to their feature films. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark starring Jeffery Wright, Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough, and James Badge Dale is a transgressive and pulverizing tale into the heart of darkness. The film plays as if it is an adult fable, a woman whose…
It is absolutely mystifying how terrible the next installment of the Predator franchise is. What made the first two films so great, and most of the third film is that they were incredibly self-aware. They knew what they were and went for it. Arnie versus the beast turned into Danny Glover in an urban game…
