Nairon Santos de Morais 
Comparing Rebel Ridge to First Blood (1982) is almost too easy. I mean, don’t get me wrong, there’s a good reason you’ll see people calling Rebel Ridge a modern take on First Blood (1982) all over the internet. They do have plenty of similarities; however, the ways in which they’re different is where both movies … Read more
Going into Wake Up, it would be easy to expect some kind of anti-woke, far-right power fantasy. The premise practically invites that reading of it. A group of self-important Gen Z activists are breaking into a fictional Ikea equivalent and vandalizing it in an attempt to raise awareness of the countless animals that have to … Read more
Terminator is one of those film franchises from the 80s Hollywood just can’t seem to leave alone. Every couple of years there’s a new movie coming out, and basically every time people hate it. Which is why I never bothered to watch any of them apart from the first two, which are, of course, fantastic. … Read more
This last Saturday, at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios had their presentation. With it came a lot of the expected news. Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford trying to sell us on Captain America: New World Order (2025)—because the trailer didn’t do a great job of doing that—and Florence Pugh and David Harbour attempting to convince … Read more
Happy New Year, everyone! We’ve left 2023 behind and moved right into 2024, and with that, we have made all kinds of promises to ourselves and others about how things will improve this time around. Naturally, the most important one of them all is the promise that the DCU will finally become great under the … Read more
Samira (Lupita Nyong’o) is about to die. Not for the reason the rest of the world is, the aliens hypersensitive to sound that just crashlanded on earth, but because she’s terminally ill. So when the apocalpyse arrives in the middle of New York City, she doesn’t break out into the same kind of panic that … Read more
For many, the name George Miller is synonymous with the Mad Max franchise, but more than that, he’s one of the most creative directors working in Hollywood right now, with an eclectic filmography that almost feels like a joke at first glance. Yes, the filmmaker behind the Mad Max franchise also came up with Happy … Read more
Netflix’s new prestige TV show Ripley from Steven Zaillian, the writer behind fantastic movies like Schindler’s List (1993) and The Irishman (2019), isn’t the first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), and it wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t end up being the last. The timing is interesting given we … Read more
We live in an era right now where every somewhat notable horror movie from the past needs to get a legacy sequel of some sort. And I know this trend isn’t exclusive to the horror genre, but where else would you get a masterpiece like The Exorcist: Believer? David Gordon Green is really delivering the … Read more
How do you even begin to talk about a movie as weird, messy, but ultimately fun as Cuckoo? It’s a modern giallo from Germany, brought to us by NEON, about a secluded resort in the mountains, strange noises that put you in temporary time loops, and screeching women with red, glowing eyes that try to … Read more