Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us is Hatchet by way of Nicholas Sparks. A middling survival film that can’t decide if it wants to be grueling or glamorous, it puts its two good lookin’ movie stars in a fair amount…
Movie Review: Brad’s Status
Mike White’s Brad’s Status is a Noah Baumbach movie where everybody is stupid. Instead of dealing with the borderline perverse anxieties of upper middle-class white intellectuals, we have a story about an upper middle-class man tethered to his own mediocrity.…
Movie Review: Death Note
Towards the end of Adam Wingard’s adaptation of Death Note, Light Turner (Nat Wolff) cracks open his locker to reveal a “normal people scare me” sticker inside, which about sums the rest of the affair up. Here’s a movie that…
Movie Review: Wind River
Taylor Sheridan has spent the last couple years establishing himself as the strongest scribe working in action cinema today. His strong screenplays for Sicario and Hell or High Water have given Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie fantastic jumping off points…
SDCC ’17: Charlize Theron Discusses Atomic Blonde, in EW’s Women Who Kick Ass Panel
With Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron seems to be cementing herself as perhaps the most influential actress in the current action genre. During her Women Who Kick AAss panel, she went into great detail about the film’s inventive inversion of typical action tropes, with…
SDCC ’17: Warner Brothers Blows the Roof Off with DC, Blade Runner 2049 and Ready Player One
After today’s WB panel, one thing is clear. Warner Bros Pictures is not taking the success of Wonder Woman lying down. Their panel, presented with a giant panoramic screen, oozed with confident energy, with the guests presenting themselves as the rockstars…
SDCC ’17 News: Will Smith, Joel Edgerton and David Ayer Light Up Hall-H With Bright
Up until now, Netflix has had a hard time establishing a cohesive identity as an independent studio. Their distribution model has been steeped in controversy and their original films have been inconsistent at best. However, that dynamic just might switch…
