This week I finally got to see the new Yorgos Lanthimos masterpiece and it did not disappoint! Angus Cloud’s second last performance hit blu-ray along with a couple other Hong Kong actioners and I immersed myself in one of the best HBO limited series in recent memory.
We’re still in that beginning-of-the-year movie lull, I talk about the most important film of 2023, a biopic starring two of the best character actors in the industry today, William Oldroyd’s long-awaited follow-up to Lady Macbeth, and much more. This week also marks the debut of a father-daughter team as my daughter Chloe has joined …
The first episode of 2024 and I’m going for the horror right away! Given, I didn’t really have anything new to watch, I instead played catch up for a few great ones including Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. I also got a box set of one of the greatest sci-fi shows ever.
New Releases: Silent Night – A gritty revenge tale of a tormented father who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge …
For the first time in four years, I got to return in person to cover a festival that is near and dear to my heart. I will admit that it felt overwhelming from time to time to reacclimate and navigate my time and the city as well as my own social anxiety that has become …
New Release: The Creator – From writer/director Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One,” “Godzilla”) comes an epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua (John David Washington, “Tenet”), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife (Gemma Chan, “Eternals”), is recruited to …
New Releases: Expend4bles – A new generation of stars joins the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob …
New Releases: A Haunting In Venice – In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to uncover the killer again. Expectations: Kenneth Branagh returns both behind the camera and in …
New Releases: The Equalizer 3 – Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his …
New Releases: Haunted Mansion – A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering ghosts inhabit it. Expectations: Disney is taking a second attempt at making one of their storied theme park attractions into a movie following the 2003 Eddie …
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