One of my favorite films of 2018 was John Krasinski's theatrical directorial debut, A Quiet Place. With fantastic characters, an incredible premise, and some of the most suspenseful sound design ever presented in film, A Quiet Place blew audiences away and was a true "must see in a theater" event. When A Quiet Place Part …
One of the best action franchises out there right now is Lionsgate's John Wick (2014- ), and its writer, Derek Kolstad is a big part of that as he is the current king of writing action—his episodes of Marvel and Disney's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) are just further proof of this. One …
I love kaiju films. From the very first King Kong (1933) to the incredible reign of Toho films, beginning with Godzilla (1954), to our new age of films such as Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), Pacific Rim (2013), and Shin Godzilla (2016). Trying to capture Disney's success with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all of the …
One of the films that I've been waiting to see since I saw its initial trailer is Promising Young Woman. From that first trailer, I knew that this film would be a fun ride from beginning to end, and I am happy to say my intuition was correct. Emerald Fennell, who has previously only acted …
Whenever I see "From the Producers of Get Out", I immediately get excited. Jordan Peele's team behind Get Out and Us did a phenomenal job with both of those films with their intersection of horror and race issues in America. So when those words came across my computer screen when I originally watched the trailer …
Continue reading Antebellum—There’s a Reason This Scrapped Its Theatrical Run
Most people, at some point or another, have come across some sort of internet troll. If you are anything like me, I often find myself wondering what spineless lowlifes are behind the malicious keyboard attacks and what would happen if they were found out. Well, Guns Akimbo is a movie from New Zealand that does …
Continue reading Guns Akimbo—A Movie About Twitch Chat on Steroids
One of my favorite genres in any form of media is children's thriller/horror. From Courage the Cowardly Dog and Over the Garden Wall in television to Gremlins and Coraline in the movies, I thoroughly believe the most underrepresented genre that has the most potential is horror thrillers for children. The Boy at the Keyhole by …
Continue reading The Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles—Adaptability Review
Back in 2016, Universal was hard at work creating their own Marvel-esque universe with their classic monsters which was set to debut with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy (2017). However, with The Mummy’s release came great critical and financial failure, and with that the scrapping of future films in that universe. One of those films was …
Continue reading The Invisible Man: A Modern Rework of a Classic Monster That Needs to Be Seen
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