I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t go into Outside the Wire expecting it to function as a critique of the U.S. military. Mikael Håfström’s latest operates with the idea that if the military continues…

In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you I am a Sam Cooke fan, and his inclusion as a character in One Night in Miami… is what initially drew my interest. Leslie Odom Jr.‘s…

The false promise that is the American Dream has been dissected over and over, by countless writers and filmmakers alike. Even so, as the illusionary powers of the American Dream evolve over time and the…

Following a brief theatrical debut in December, Regina King’s One Night in Miami has arrived on Amazon Prime Video. The director’s debut film is a strong addition to an already fantastic career. Not to be outdone, Disney+…

Does anyone else still use Redbox? This is something I’m genuinely curious about because I still find myself making regular trips to the Redbox despite all of the streaming services I have access to on…

In just a few years, director Doug Liman plans to go into outer space and film a movie with Tom Cruise. Yet somehow, that still won’t be the most ambitious film Liman’s ever tackled. Rather,…

After an astronaut returns from her lunar mission to find that the public lost all interest in the moon, the stories of the astronaut, a film director, and a bear intersect.   Nick Kush: Whether it’s…

Mark Wahlberg’s career has been pretty interesting as of late. Some of his most fascinating films have found him in strange roles. In every one of them; however, he always manages to make his character…

As most have lamented and shared in their end of the year lists, 2020 was a strange year. I found myself, like many, a bit lost without the routine of going to movie theaters. In…

So many thoughts run through my head when I’m watching a truly terrible movie: Why am I here? Why do I like inflicting pain on myself? Do I secretly like it? Why didn’t I spend…

Pieces of a Woman is Kornél Mundruczó’s first full feature in English. The acclaimed Hungarian director teamed up with big names such as Vanessa’s Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, and Ellen Burstyn, and the movie chronicles the consequences of…

2020 is the most concrete proof I can display that I am potentially already in hell. I’m not going to spend this opening paragraph attempting to recap the macro scale view of 2020 as anything…

Pieces of a Woman has arrived as Netflix’s first big 2021 release. Amid troubles surrounding Shia LaBeouf, the film debuted in the #2 Spot on Netflix’s Top Ten List. Falling short of We Can Be Heroes,…

2020 was a year that seems will always be remembered as an absolute hellscape; between a tumultuous election year, a widespread pandemic, and economic pressures on a global scale, the world felt as if it…

Let’s start with a little bit of explanation. I guess that most of you are unfamiliar with the word “aspie”. It’s shorthand for Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a neurological disorder. Nowadays, Asperger’s is no longer…

For all the time spent lamenting the end of cinema post-March, there were still plenty of great movies to see in 2020. This year marked the largest number of new movies I’ve seen in a…

Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.   Nick Kush: I love little oddballs such as Freeze Frame, wherein it appears the creator set out to try something just to see what…

2020 is mercilessly over, but before we close the book entirely on the very, very hellish year, Collin, Brennan, and I look back on the year that was in movies. But instead of doing the…

For Context: When Inside Out was released in 2015, it was a revelation. On one hand, it was simply another link in the Pixar chain of “what if ________ had feelings?” (pick an object and…

This much-belated review could have been finished last week, considering the film came out on the 18th. But I’ll be honest, considering that Christmas was coming, I didn’t want to spend my time writing about…

For all the movies that have been pushed back this year, Christmas Day felt like a return to normalcy with releases such as Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, The Midnight Sky, Promising Young Woman, and We Can…

Two of my favorite actors are James Stewart and Cary Grant, so The Philadelphia Story is one of my favorite movies. Yet, I’m not blind to the fact that this movie…hasn’t really aged well. In the…

What Does Hollywood Have Against 2049? 2049 and three weeks after what is referred to as “The Event”, humanity faces extinction, except for the extravagantly named Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney), who has remained at his…

Sometimes, comedy’s purpose is more than a good laugh. It is able to make a point as few things can. This year is the 40th anniversary of 9 to 5. Looking back on the last…

This may be a controversial opinion, but O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen Brothers’ best film. It’s my favorite, anyway. And there when I feel quite passionately about something, I find it helps to lay…