The Warner Bros. marketing department may not be interested in letting the audience know Wonka is a musical, but Paul King doesn’t let 30 seconds go by of his delicious and sweet new piece of candy before he unleashes a...
Justine Triet‘s Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une Chute), which won the Cannes Palme d’Or back in May, doesn’t follow the traditional narrative of a murder investigation. Previous whodunnits like Knives Out or Zodiac focus on the investigators looking for leads and...
As we’ve learned over the past couple of years, there have been two types of post-pandemic movies to come out of our top creators’ minds. We have the “revisiting my childhood” wave, spearheaded by movies like Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans...
Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron was once announced to be animation genius Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature film, as the 82-year-old co-founder of the studio was looking to retire after a glorious career filled with movies like Spirited Away...
Todd Haynes‘ May December is a unique film this year (which has already been filled with an equal number of unique and corporately assembled movies), and ultimately that’s what makes it stand out in the crowd. I first saw this...
It always seemed like a head-scratcher that Ridley Scott would announce a 4-hour cut of Napoleon coming to Apple TV Plus next year, weeks before the theatrical cut released in theaters by Sony last Friday was ever seen by anyone....
There’s really no overstating the massive eye-roll I gave the first time I saw the logo of the latest entry in the Hunger Games series, subtitled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which adapts the 2020 prequel novel by Suzanne...
The intention behind the new Apple series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (produced by Legendary) is very clear from the first few moments of the first episode. Anna Sawai‘s Cate hops off the plane in Tokyo and stops by a sign...
David Fincher‘s The Killer is all about setting a mood. From its smooth yet nail-biting opening scene to each of the six chapters and the epilogue that constitute this story, the film, just like its main character, never really stops...
At least it was better than Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? It’s sad that this is where we’re at with Marvel these days, as the days of Captain America: Civil War or Thor: Ragnarok seem from a lifetime ago. Films...