2004’s Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington (based on a book of the same name from 1980), existed as a seminal film of its time. Twenty-four years after its release, the film has cemented its place in the action movie pantheon. In my younger film-watching years, it existed as a …
The world of Peaky Blinders has become a vast achievement in streaming content. Debuting from the BBC and then moving to Netflix in 2014, the show became a landmark property for the streaming service. After six seasons, no one expected Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man to even happen. For diehard …
The signs were there when Sony transferred the rights to Tommy Wirkola’s Shiver – now called Thrash – to Netflix, which the streamer is now attempting to quietly dump a few weeks ago, with minimal promotional awareness. It’s strange, though, because Wirkola’s filmography is filled with impassioned genre works, from …
We first meet Rachel (Camila Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) on their wedding day. The couple are meeting at the end of the aisle, but it hardly looks like a joyous day. She pulls up her veil, a look of terror on her face, something very bad is going to …
The creative team behind Derry Girls returns with the comedy thriller, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. The show marks a darker shift for creator, writer, and executive producer Lisa McGee, with fans of her previous work likely expecting something darker. After the death of their school friend, flighty …
Documentary filmmaking is probably the cinematic medium that benefits the most from technological improvements in the arts. Each new tool used in production allows the directors to fill gaps caused by the lack of archival footage and the limitations of interviewing subjects. Hence, in recent years, we have observed the …
Whenever I see the names of Matt Damon (The Martian) and Ben Affleck (Argo) together on a poster, my attention is captured by a nostalgia that goes back to their earliest successes. The dynamic between the two is one of the most solid pillars of contemporary cinema, and the prospect …
There’s a lot going on in the little town of Hawkins, Indiana, and none of it’s good. With so much going on in the Upside Down and with Vecna, it can be easy to forget that there are plenty of normal problems, too. While searching for Vecna, Nancy stumbles across …
I started my home viewing of Goodbye June with no real expectations, being solely driven by a genuine curiosity about what Kate Winslet (Titanic) could achieve now that she has taken the director’s chair. I didn’t know much about the project, other than it was set during the Christmas season, …
There are a few artists who make a generational impact. A work that influences and emotions for multiple decades, even if they are not with us anymore. It is the outstanding beauty of artistry that breaks the geographical and time barriers. An accurate example of that concept is Selena Quintanilla, …
South Korean cinema holds a prominent place in my cinematic preferences, being a passion that makes me follow almost everything coming out of that region with genuine excitement. Beyond that, disaster movies are my ultimate guilty pleasure. I didn’t have any prior knowledge of director Kim Byung-woo‘s work, nor was …
It seems that Train Dreams is so named because of how spectacular and innovative the technology of train travel was to the life at the centre of the film. It is set almost entirely in Idaho and western Washington state and shows a style of living that might as well …
“Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.” With these words early in his presidency, James Garfield may have sealed his fate. Shot by Charles J. Guiteau and dying six months after taking office in 1881, the United States …
For someone who watches a lot of horror movies, I can get easily scared. It probably sounds paradoxical to also admit that I don’t exactly enjoy the feeling of being scared; however, I digress. That being said, context is always important when it comes to what might freak me out, …
The expectations surrounding A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s new and highly anticipated film, were understandably stratospheric. After military tension and psychological analysis masterworks like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, the prospect of Bigelow returning to a theme of war and existential crisis — dealing with the nuclear …
The formula established in Knives Out and Glass Onion has been changed in Wake Up Dead Man. The series of good old-fashioned murder mysteries solved by gentleman detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has been a roaring success because they were mostly about fabulously wealthy people being held to account. Tweaking the …
Every episode of House of Guinness, Steven Knight’s newest television creation for Netflix, begins with a disclaimer and promise: “This fiction is inspired by true stories”. While based on many real people and events of 1860s Dublin (and further afield), House of Guinness is first and foremost concerned with being …
There’s no doubt that manga is becoming one of the most popular art forms in the world. Initially, manga became famous in certain parts of Asia due to its storytelling and brilliant illustrations. Soon, it started to gain popularity in Western countries. The rise of Manga made filmmakers realize that …
After solving not one, not two, but three murders you would think that the Thursday Murder Club would deserve a little break. But there’s no rest for the wicked, and when an old friend of Elizabeth’s shows up needing help, the rest of the club gets drawn right in. Before …
We don’t choose our family. Love them, hate them, they are our families, and we are stuck with them. Some of us are blessed with living, supportive ones; others not so much, and the rest fall somewhere in between. Black Rabbit is a story of brothers who fall somewhere in …