Alex Garland wasn’t kidding.
The writer/director of “Civil War” said his dystopian thriller didn’t take political sides. The film bears that out, focusing entirely on journalists scrambling to...
Horror and dumb go together like peas and cah-rots, to paraphrase Forrest Gump.
Think: There’s a serial killer on the loose … let’s split up!
The monster sure looks like it’s dead. Let’s...
In this semi-autobiographical 2-season dark comedy, Tig (Tig Notaro) heads home to Mississippi when her mother has to be taken off her life support. As she reconnects with her stepfather (John Rothman)...
"Tepid, Abhorrent Second Half"
Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)
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"Violent, Depressing, Monotonous, and Facile, Full of Sound and Fury"
Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise...
The Coens. The Russos. The Farrellys. The Duplasses. The Safdies.
The Chinas?
No, Paul and Benjamin China aren’t in the rarified air of those famous directorial duos. Not even close.
Still, the...
Based on the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics later revealed to be written by journalist Joe Klein while covering Bill Clinton’s campaign, this comedy follows presidential hopeful Jack Stanton...
This 1978 slapstick comedy follows football great Joseph Pendleton (played by co-writer and co-director Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde) after his guardian angel mistakenly takes him to heaven forty-five...
From directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (Scream VI) and Tyler Gillett (Ready Or Not), this spooky horror tells the haunting story of a would-be group of kidnappers who get what’s coming to them after they...
When a new Indian restaurant opens its doors across the road from a Michelin-star eatery in a quaint French village, owner of the posh establishment Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren - 1923) immediately starts...
EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans on the Oversight Committee are requesting a briefing from the FBI on the threat of ecoterrorism as the committee prepares to launch an investigation into possible threats...
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Civil War: based or cringe? That is the million-dollar question.
Your gut tells you that because it is a Hollywood film, it will be an evil MAGAs versus virtuous libtards cringefest with...
Confession: This critic loves movies where innocents scramble in the woods while something or someone hunts them down.
Think of thrillers like “Backcountry” or the sublime “Alone” as prime examples.
The...
‘Blood for Dust’ (The Avenue)
On this week’s show I talked to Rod Blackhurst, the director of the new film Blood for Dust, about … well, a whole bunch of stuff. From his early shorts on the...
.@bfwalter on America shifting to minority White makeup: "To a subset of the White population here this is deeply, deeply threatening… They see the United States as a White Christian country. And they...
[Insert lack of Marvel superheroes joke here.]
Now that that’s out of the way, Alex Garland’s Civil War is a surprisingly smart movie, a film not about right and wrong so much as what would happen...
StarringKirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee SpaenyDirectorAlex GarlandRatingRGenreActionRelease dateApril 12, 2024
Civil War has almost no story, little meaningful character growth, and virtually...
The worst thing that could have happened to Warner Brothers over the last few months was the release of the film ‘Godzilla: Minus One.’ A movie that was made on a 12 million dollar production budget...
For months, word has spread about the new movie Civil War. It's the most incendiary film of our time! Controversial! A president who claims a third term presides over a crumbling America that literally...
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