by Mike Joseph | Dec 21, 2022
Brendan Fraser delivers the performance of his career in director Darren Aronofsky’s latest film. I want to begin this review by saying that The Whale is not for everyone. From the start, it’s uncomfortable and in your face as we witness a man who is...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 20, 2022
The silent era of Hollywood has never looked more like a glorious mess than it does in Damien Chazelle’s star-studded period epic. Damien Chazelle has been one of Hollywood’s favorite young filmmaking auteurs since winning the Best Director Oscar in 2017, and...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 13, 2022
The leader of a girl gang learns the horrifying truth about her environment in this genre-blending coming-of-age allegory from Brazil. Brazil is a country whose contributions to cinema have had sporadic gains in reaching American audiences over the decades,...
by Sean Atkins | Dec 13, 2022
The acclaimed director delivers again in this 13-year follow-up that rules with a raised fist. If there’s anyone in Hollywood who should be given the benefit of the doubt, it’s director James Cameron, who has made two of the three biggest films of all-time (Avatar...
by Sean Atkins | Dec 9, 2022
The film is now streaming on Apple TV+. As Apple continues to show how it’s done with original films among the streamers, now comes their biggest film yet: Emancipation. You know the buzz around the film, so there’s no need to rehash that. But what matters is the...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 7, 2022
Academy Award winner Olivia Colman manages the historic Empire Theatre during the rise of Margaret Thatcher in the newest film from Sam Mendes. Ever since making his directorial feature debut with American Beauty in 1999, Sam Mendes has established himself as a...
