Tag: A24
REVIEW: Civil War (2024)
[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 if a hellish civil war of the kind we mostly associate with third-world nations came to America, a...
Read MoreCivil War Trailer Presents a Divided America
If you thought family arguments at Thanksgiving were proof of a divided nation, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Today, A24 released a trailer for the upcoming sci-fi action film Civil War. Written and directed by Alex Garland (Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Ex Machina, Dredd), Civil War takes place in the ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Whale (2022)
Originally, I wasn’t planning to see The Whale. I love Brendan Fraser, and it’s been awesome seeing him on the screen again, but it looked too drab and dire for me. This movie has received rave reviews, particularly for Fraser’s performance as a depressed, morbidly obese teacher. I...
Read MoreREVIEW: Pearl (2022)
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Sep 20, 2022 | 0
Following Ti West’s lackluster horror film X, the announcement of a rapidly-released sequel seemed a poor idea destined to fail. The recent release of Pearl proved that to be utterly and entirely false. Pearl may be one of the best horror films in many years, focusing on character study an...
Read MoreEverything Everywhere All at Once Is Everything You’ve Heard
I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once this past weekend, and I can’t stop thinking about it. This movie is bizarre beyond explanation and full of seemingly impossible feats of science and human emotion. In short, I liked it a lot. Normally I would want to review a movie that I saw and enjoyed,...
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