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
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