Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at Poor Things. Poor Things is an absolute triumph of a motion picture. It is an often hilarious tale of female self-actualization set in a visually splendorous world which recalls the Victorian age by way of Georges Méliès and, mildly, even a bit H.G. Wells or Terry Gilliam.
Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at Lisa Frankenstein. Growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, my grandparents had HBO. One of the big complaints from people who paid for HBO at the time was that they played the same movies over and over again. This meant, however, that as a kid I would
Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at The Banshees of Inisherin, nominated for nine Academy Awards. Inisherin is a fictional island off the coast of mainland Ireland, and the film takes place there in the early 1920s during the time of the Irish Civil War. I don’t think it’s a stretch to think this
Guest reviewer Kiyotaka has a look at All Quiet On the Western Front, nominated for nine Academy Awards. (Spoilers below.) Before we get into discussing the movie, we all need to know about the Western Front, one of the major theatres of war during World War I. The battle was fought between Germany and France,
Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at Women Talking, nominated for for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. I feel really bad giving this film a negative review on International Working Women’s Day, but I can’t pretend this film worked for me. I haven’t read the novel this film is based on, and I
Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, nominated for seven Academy Awards. The Fabelmans feels like a movie entirely built around Steven Spielberg forgiving his parents. It’s been evident throughout Spielberg’s filmography that he’s been in a state of arrested development his whole life, and never was that more on
Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at the latest chapter in the Hellraiser universe. My biggest takeaway from this new Hellraiser film is that it is simply not fucked up enough. Sure, there’s good gore, and the Cenobite designs are cool and gnarly, but something that’s been missing from the Hellraiser films since the
By guest columnist dyron_rises1988. After jungles, a drug war-torn LA, and small towns, 20th Century Studios takes its famed cinematic monster the Predator to a new territory in the prequel titled Prey, a period sci-fi action-horror film set in 1719 where a young Comanche woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder) strives to become a warrior like
Guest writer Jeff has a review of Flee, nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature. This was cinema. It was no wonder that Flee became the first film to get simultaneously nominated for Best International Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature and Best Animated Feature. The animation employed here was a