Lionsgate
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is everything I hoped this release would be—actually, it was more than I hoped it would be.
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t has a game that is thrillingly played, layering scheme upon scheme and drawing us tighter to it as it powers toward its applause-worthy reveal.
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The one thing separating Boy Kills World from its hyperviolent brethren is the one thing I can’t talk about: the ending. We’ve seen movies like this before – someone undergoes years of training to become an instrument of death, aiming to avenge his family’s death at the hands of oppressors – but the twist is […]
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In my review of No One Will Save You, I said, “A near-silent movie just doesn’t happen these days.” Who knew that 2023 would bring TWO near-silent releases, with one of them being action grandmaster John Woo’s return to American cinemas after a 20-year absence? Silent Night is a bit of a departure from Woo’s well-known “heroic bloodshed” […]
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This review is dedicated to the memory of Lance Reddick, a formidable actor who gave untold amounts of grace, depth, and gravitas to every appearance, whether in film or television. He and his talents will be missed. Few are the film franchises that succeed with every additional sequel; not even The Godfather can lay claim […]
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Those familiar with writer/director/film geek paragon Kevin Smith’s story about how he turned his film school education and his convenience store work experience into indie film box office gold will no doubt be enthralled with Clerks III, the follow-up to the 1994 original and its 2006 sequel. 1994’s sleeper hit Clerks spawned an entire microcosm […]
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Memories are all we leave behind. The entirety of our psyches is made of memory and experience, and like all memories, there are good and bad… and then there are the formative. The ones we carry with us for the rest of our lives, the ones that leave their mark on us and dictate who […]
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I’m going to put it as bluntly as I can: The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is all show, little go. But what show there is can be at least defined as “entertaining” and “it does its job,” if you were a fan of the first film. (I was.) There’s not much to either of these movies; […]
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Let me explain a bit about my experiences with the Saw franchise. My wife and I saw the first film in theaters shortly after we were married in 2004. It frayed our nerves so much, she couldn’t speak to me as we walked out after the film’s closing credits. On the way to the car, […]
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(Originally published at Gunaxin on November 28, 2019. This film was screened at the Middleburg Film Festival on 10/20/19) The following paragraph is a summary from the email sent to press: Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fresh, modern-day murder mystery […]
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