Sex is a profitable business. Sports are also a good business. What about retro EDM? It can\’t hurt. All this is part of Italian film director Luca Guadagnino\’s new erotic tennis drama Challengers. It is a raunchy feel-good movie that knows it is very good right from the beginning. Even before we see the iconic […]
The First Omen, which recently premiered — although it is not to be confused with it because of its equal impact — this indie film that was called Omen (or Augure in French, which means ‘oracle’ or ‘soothsayer’) when it was originally named. A Congolese man who is doomed returns to his roots with his
In 1997, there were no social media platforms. At that time, it had not yet established itself as a permanent fixture that influences us all whenever it feels like it – mostly kids for the worse – though meanness and cruelty have always been around. Set in the late \’90s, Hulu’s Under the Bridge brings
Twenty-nine years ago today, the United States suffered its worst act of domestic terrorism: Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh and his ilk were motivated by a laundry list of real and imagined grievances they had been nursing for years. The story of the Oklahoma
With Sting, director Kiah Roache-Turner has created something more modest than his previous movies, although no less entertaining. The film combines a creature feature with a family drama to provide an outlet for Wētā Workshop’s practical effects; the gooey kills have some emotional heft behind them. This is more high-concept tinkering from the brains behind
In an absurd, mindless and macabre serial killer thriller set in Europe, Samuel L. Jackson leads a respectable cast off a cliff. Damaged stretches credibility from the beginning and then proceeds to drop IQ points with every frame that passes by. The American detective helping Scottish police catch a Satanic murderer plot seems simple but
The Beast might as well be referred to as a slow twisting knife into the side of our existence, sharpened to a point by Bertrand Bonello and wielded with surgical precision so as not to nick any vital organs — we’re alive, but definitely hurting. Indeed, placing itself at a time when humanity is its
According to Variety, director Rod Blackhurst and co-writer David Ebeltoft’s Blood for Dust is “Breaking Bad meets Fargo,” and they’re not wrong. Lead actor Scoot McNairy (True Detective, The Comey Rule) channels every great gritty neo-noir protagonist as Cliff, an average salesman who bites off more than he can chew while just trying to make
In 1992, two Black boys in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects struggle with change as the rest of their life falls apart around them. We Grown Now is a heart-wrenching story of growing up told poetically and beautifully. The film portrays an upbringing that is rarely depicted with such honesty through the use of symbolic fantasy
Boy Kills World would beat you up and do it between laughs. This Hyperkinetic action flick takes every theme it can find and runs them into the ground with some clever direction, an A-list cast, and twists that completely warp the story during a balls-to-the-wall climax. Bill Skarsgård is an absolute animal in this one
