Based on the events following the demise of Josef Stalin and the political power vacuam that followed, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin is a solidly comedic psuedo-historical farce that works incredibly effectively when the jokes are flying, but [...]
I feel I should preface this review by stating that I enjoy many of the films of director Eli Roth. They’re not masterworks by any degree, nor are they bold or confronting pieces, they’re genre flicks. That’s what Eli Roth does, he makes [...]
The tentpole biopic and second major World War Two film of 2017, Darkest Hour tells the story of the first month of Winston Churchill Prime Minister-ship, starting with his appointment and ending with the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation. Part [...]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi isn’t exactly like any of the other Star Wars films, but it also doesn’t feel excessively different from any of them. The basic structure a few of the key scenes from Empire Strikes Back are replicated, but this movie [...]
Thor: Ragnarok takes itself just as seriously as any movie featuring improbably sculptured people in bawdy costumes doing an unnecessary amount of flipping should; not a whole lot. Director Taika Waititi (Boy, What we do in the Shadows, Hunt for the [...]
Blade Runner 2049 is a slow film. Not in the elegantly paced and palpably tense way where the movie drags you in and dares you to see what happens next. No, this film is slow in the way that it makes it’s two and a half hours feel as if you’ve [...]
The latest directorial effort by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan) and probably his most ambitiously artistic one since The Fountain (2006), Mother! is more of a Greek Tragedy than a Horror Movie. The characters remain nameless as the story [...]
Alien: Covenant (2017) should not be called Alien: Covenant. It really should be called Prometheus: Covenant, or perhaps more directly titled Prometheus: But this time there’s actually Xenomorphs. That’s really what Alien: Covenant is from a [...]
