In 1966, one of the great American film directors brought to the silver screen an omen of things to come. That film is Seconds. Directed by John Frankenheimer, it is the story of a disillusioned middle-aged man contacted by an agency known as “The Company,” which specializes in providing “rebirths”: new identities and appearances through massive reconstructive plastic surgery. Sound familiar? It does to me.
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Five years after our friendly neighborhood web-slinger “saved theaters” post-COVID, and twenty-four years after the first Raimi film broke the $100M opening weekend barrier, Spider-Man has swung back into theaters to break box office records once again, this time unseating Avengers: Endgame.
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Chris Nolan is back with The Odyssey, his most epic (pun intended) film to date. Having already amassed over $264M worldwide, the movie is an absolute triumph in filmmaking and pop culture entertainment
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Star Wars is back! And it has nothing to say. After seven long years, the galaxy far, far away has returned to cinemas with Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian and Grogu, a feature-length spin-off from the Disney+ series, and it is less a film and more a 130-minute video, one you would find on your social […]
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Godzilla is one of cinema’s finest creations. The pure manifestation of art as social and political critique. The shining example of examining our own world and creating a mythical figure to match. He is also one of the most flexible characters ever created. He can be scary, friendly, the villain, the anti-hero, a father, a […]
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The movie ending is an art unto itself. What is the final feeling the filmmaker wants you to walk out with? Do they want to wrap their story up in a tidy bow, or do they want to leave you with a question?
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“…all elements that should work for an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, but are ultimately let down by its two leads, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.”
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