AppleTV's CAPE FEAR's maximalist approach makes it difficult to look away from. But is that the same as it being good? wonders @ungajje.bsky.social .
What's the difference between a piano and a fish? Who cares, says @ungajje.bsky.social , focus on how great TUNER is instead!
Despite brief thrills, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu plays like a rerun of the TV series, says @lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social . And not one of the good episodes.
Watching the latest interpretation of an oft-adapted work, there’s a certain temptation to try to get ahead of the story. To identify the familiar beats, to spot the new twists. I've watched the two…
It isn’t hard to find people who complain that “they don’t make movies for adults like they used to”. Regardless of the validity of that declinist point of view, the cinematic varietal that…
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Star Wars and television have been going together like “ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong” for ages. Never forget, the second piece of filmed Star Wars media ever was that Star Wars Holiday…
@ungajje.bsky.social has plenty of praise for I LOVE BOOSTERS despite feeling the film doesn't quite realize its range of ambitions.
The classic @Tormny_Pickeals’ tweet declared, “Black Panther was a fine movie but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end the Black Panther turned to the camera & said i…
Spider-Noir has descended from the rooftops and @ungajje.bsky.social couldn't be happier.
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is rendered unsteady by its self-consciousness, argues @lisalamanfilmfan. It would've done better to fully commit to fantasy epic inside.
@lisalamanfilmfan praises BACKROOMS as a key part of a rising new age of horror. buff.ly/P4mPjGk
TIME AND WATER fumbles its important message, but remains worth seeing, asserts @sgorr.bsky.social.
@ungajje.bsky.social is powerless against the charms of POWER BALLAD, which packs a surprising emotional punch.
One of the harder things to accept as a comic book fan is that your favorite character is going to be different depending on where they show up. Yes, they have some core qualities and a power set…
Laika founder and director Travis Knight first jumped to live-action filmmaking with Bumblebee. There, by letting the franchise’s robots function as sincere dramatic figures, he provided a welcome…
Much like The Great Mouse Detective heralded the imminent arrival of the Disney Renaissance, Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink has proven a harbinger of the 2020s horror cinema scene. Specifically, it…
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“We will never meet because we live in different times. I cannot send you a glacier, but I can send you this,” says narrator and poet Andri Snær Magnason in the opening moments of Time and Water, a…
One of the hardest things about making movies about artists is convincingly capturing their work on screen. If you could paint an incredible work of art, chances are you’d do that, not create it for…
The Fabelmans saw Spielberg finally address, openly and explicitly, the driving forces of his creative life. That said, it didn’t so much unlock Spielberg’s willingness to get personal in his…
