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Whatever one thought of Todd Phillips‘s Joker, it earned its share of acclaim and accolades, and nabbed Joaquin Phoenix a Best Actor Oscar. Whether it bore too close of a resemblance to certain Martin...
When you’re a director with a career as legendary as Francis Ford Coppola‘s, it buys you a lot of latitude to make mistakes. His run of films in the 70s produced four all-time classics...
Beats The Blues Brothers, loses to Holiday
Beats PULSE (2001), loses to THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931)
My Old Ass (2024) 1,398 / 5,584 (75%) Straight out of Sundance into our local theaters is Megan Park’s sophomore directorial effort (she previously did 2021’s The Fallout starring Jenna Ortega), the coming-of-age story...
Uglies (2024) 5,002 / 5,583 (10%) Young Adult cinema strikes again with Netflix’s adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. Tally Youngblood (Joey King) inhabits a future world where climate change and war have wrecked...
Never Let Go (2024) 4,212 / 5,580 (25%) Halle Berry versus trauma and the trees. Never Let Go follows a single mother known only as Momma (Halle Berry), and her two sons Samuel (Anthony...
If this Blog has indicated anything, 2024 seems to be a year for horror. There have been more than a few horror releases this year, of varying types, qualities, and from various parts of...
The American remake of Speak No Evil is one of the quicker turnarounds for a remake out there. The Danish original only screened at Sundance back in January 2022. After receiving critical acclaim, it...
In a movie-making era overrun by studio-generated legacy sequels, remakes, and requels, it’s hard not to be cynical about the mere existence of many of these movies. While a sequel to Beetlejuice had been...
The Deliverance (2024) 5,002 / 5,568 (10%) Netflix brings us another demon-possession horror film with Lee Daniel’s (Precious, 2009) The Deliverance. Like The Amityville Horror films and the Conjuring Universe, this is based on...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)