After years and years it finally happened; the Justice League has been assembled. Zack Snyder, with minute help from Joss Whedon, has birth a new generation of heroes onto the screen bringing a new and original vision that is a fast paced, exhilarating, and a kick ass thrill ride. The film is lean with a…
Murder On The Orient Express is a near perfect cinematic explosion. Kenneth Branagh who directs and stars in the Agatha Christie classic assembles a film with a phenomenal ensemble, breathtaking set pieces, and an irregular narrative tempo. This film hits its mark and is an excellent example of modernizing a classic, yet staying true to…
The second season of Netflix’s fall flagship show, Stranger Things, does exactly what a sequel needs to do; it surpasses and exceeds the first season. The SAG-winning ensemble returns, meet new challenges, and once again saves the world. The Carpenter-esque score is back, as loud and haunting as ever, and a plethora of seminal 80s…
Netflix has just released yet another Stephen King adaptation this month in the form of 1922. The film stars Thomas Jane and Molly Parker as a couple whose marriage is falling apart, and they are arguing over whether to sell their farm and seek prosperity in a big city or stay together and work it…
From producer Joe Carnahan and starring Frank Grillo comes Netflix’s latest original feature, Wheelman. The story follows Grillo as a driver for higher where the stakes of a botched bank robbery force him to make life or death decisions that boy only affect his well being, but that of his daughter and estranged wife. Ninety…
There is an immeasurable bizarreness and incoherence to Tomas Alfredson’s latest feature, The Snowman, that suits the film perfectly. What was once billed as the next Martin Scorsese picture, it quickly morphed into the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy auteur’s follow-up feature film. Scorsese stayed on as an Executive Producer and Thelma Schoonmaker stayed on as…
From the opening credits, Christopher Nolan assembles a sequence that not only clues us in on what is about to unfold but also tells us there is nothing but darkness and despair in what lies ahead. Insomnia may just be Nolan’s most overlooked film, and his most underrated. Pitting a dreary Al Pacino against an…
Netflix just released their new original series from David Fincher and creator Joe Penhall titled Mindhunters. Fincher directed four out of the episodes in what was heavily advertised and promised as a spiritual follow-up to Fincher’s most seminal and finest work, Zodiac. The series looks great, the cinematography is on point, the score is what…
Brawl In Cell Block 99 isn’t quite the film one would think it would be. Yes, it’s a gruesome and unrelenting film from S. Craig Zahler whose first film BONE TOMAHAWK is an unnerving horror western, but for as raw and unprocessed as BRAWL can be, this film has something to say. It is very…
With Gerald’s Game, Netflix is riding the current resurgence of Stephen King properties. While THE DARK TOWER has quickly been forgotten and IT has been taking the box office by storm, there is an awakened interest in King’s works. The source of the same name is a novel from 1992, and one that isn’t as…
Blade Runner 2049 is that film that comes once in a lifetime. It will lay the fertile groundwork for a bounty of young aspiring filmmakers and artists, and those that know not of what they will eventually create. The film forgoes the relentless tinkering of Ridley Scott from the original film and constructs itself in…
Matthew Vaughn returns to his new found, and maybe accidental franchise with KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. This time around he assembles the Statesmen, made up of Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, Halle Berry, and Jeff Bridges who team up with returning cast members Colin Firth, Mark Strong, and Taron Egerton against the wickedly fun Julianne Moore…
The Vessell is a film that has mistaken slipped under the radar. It’s a small and very intimate picture that is set in modern-day Puerto Rico where a small town is still deeply affected a tsunami’s wave that wiped out a school, killing all of the children. The dilapidation became suffocating until a series of…
Stephen King is one of modern American literature’s most adept writers who gets prolific and at times rather mediocre adaptations of his most seminal works. More times than not, King’s works are best adapted to the long form of television. Think Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot, The Stand, and the original miniseries event of IT directed…
When the credits rolled it all made perfect sense. The film had six screenwriters. Six. Spider-Man: Homecoming is two films. The first story is an incredibly engaging story of class warfare; an examination of how the assembly of the Avengers created an even greater economic divide between the ruling class and the common people….
