Antebellum is a movie built on a good intentions, and yet it frequently talks down to its audience in an infuriatingly smug manner. It’s a movie built around a single big reveal that’s meant to impress upon you a reality that you’re probably already aware of. The film wants to stress that America’s original sin of the slavery remains with us, but puts so much emphasis on a big reveal that it misses both the human stakes and our present miseries with regards to racial injustice. The cruelest cut of all in Gerard Bush and Christopher …
Season 1 of Netflix's The Witcher showed some promise. But there are things the show can improve upon.
Every Star Wars fan has very strong (and mixed) opinions about the Disney era. Here are the biggest hits and misses with the new characters!
Here are 5 things Ad Astra does better than Interstellar, and 5 things it missed the mark on.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 introduces open world gameplay to the hit franchise but sadly the many changes it introduces fail to hit the mark.
Classic movies get remade all the time; it seems to happen more than ever before in the current era of film-making. While almost any film seems up for a possible remake, it is the horror genre that gets its stories retold time and time again. From frightening one-off hits to franchises starring iconic killers, it happens all the time.
Adapting a musical into a film is something that happens quite often. There are hundreds of cases where a beloved play is brought to the big screen, filled with the same kind of boisterous voices and beautiful singing they're known for in the first place. But, does it always translate well when moved to a new medium?
The Coen Brothers are some of the most talented and prolific filmmakers working today. Their films, while wildly different, all have an undeniable mark that makes them instantly recognizable as a Coen Brothers film. Their ear for dialogue and their strange characters are often imitated but it never feels the same as the real thing.
Everything about Amazon Prime's Hanna indicates it should be more fun than it is. It's adapted from the frenetic, Chemical Brothers-soundtracked film of the same name directed by Joe Wright. It reunites Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos on-screen for the first time since the pair starred in The Killing. Its story revolves around a teenaged assassin trained in the woods to kill dudes twice her size with ease. Its first trailer was subtitled with the absolutely wonderful phrase BABY HEIST, for goodness sake. And yet, outside of some tremendous lead performances and a few emotional bright …
Discovery has fun with a pair of classic Trek style plots, but this Saru-heavy episode ultimately fails to go to warp.