Emerald Fennell, now entering her third feature film, is seemingly becoming one of those directors that you either love or you hate. I really enjoyed her debut film, Promising Young Woman, for its dark humor
★★★★ To weep or not to weep? It’s not so much a question as it is an inevitability in Chloé Zhao’s profoundly moving adaptation of Hamnet. Drawn from the equally affecting novel by Maggie O’Farrell,
★★★ It’s not fealty that’s bringing the crowds to Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, a film that often feels less like an Emily Brontë adaptation than organic entity in and of its own right. No, these
People have asked me: “Brandon, why do you bother reviewing movies you know you don’t think you’re going to like?” Well, there can be a few reasons. I could want to support a specific actor
Here’s a mystery for you: what does Netflix have against full theatrical releases. I mean after this film and Frankenstein; it’s ridiculous. Did a movie theater sleep with Ted Sarandos’ wife or something? I’m happy
★★★ A year on, it feels legitimate to consider Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: Part One a barnstorming success. Not content with defying gravity at the box office, the film proved popular through the awards season
You would think all director Dan Trachtenberg wanted out of life was a chance to get his hands on the Predator film franchise, because since getting the opportunity back in 2022, he has vice gripped
There has not been a man more deserving of a rest since God created the universe in six days than Yorgos Lathimos. The guy has quickly become one of Hollywood’s favorite auteurs and has managed
★★ Was it the story that drew punters en masse to last year’s It Ends With Us or that story? Justin Baldoni’s emotional excoriation of abuse on screen or Blake Lively’s allegations of the same
Way back in my days of being a stupid high schooler who tried to coast his way through school. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was one of the rare books that actually managed to hold my attention.