Bombshell (2019)
Bombshell is a somewhat loose recounting of the toxic, cultish, and highly sexist atmosphere that permeated Fox News under the tenure of their CEO, Roger Ailes. Most of the events that take place in...
Bombshell is a somewhat loose recounting of the toxic, cultish, and highly sexist atmosphere that permeated Fox News under the tenure of their CEO, Roger Ailes. Most of the events that take place in...
Executive produced by Ben Wheatley, In Fabric is a comedic horror film from Peter Strickland, who made critical splashes with prior small-scale efforts like the crafty, giallo-homage of Berberian Sound Studio and the fetishistic...
The premise of The Lighthouse is relatively simple: two men isolated indefinitely at a rocky island lighthouse some distance from the coast of New England go mad over time. If you really want to simplify...
James Cameron returns back to the franchise he created by producing and co-writing the original story upon which Terminator: Dark Fate is based. Although technically the sixth feature film in the franchise, this entry...
Will Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a top-notch sniper and skilled combat fighter working for a black ops government agency named Gemini, performing one last kill before retiring from the assassin business at the...
2010s / Drama / Superhero / Thriller / Uncategorized
by Vincent Leo · Published October 12, 2019 · Last modified October 15, 2019
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
Hustlers is a somewhat different take on the traditional crime film, ostensibly exploitative and glossy on the surface, but with some surprising themes to ponder underneath. This one is inspired by the real-life story,...
Jillian Bell stars as Brittany Forgler, a broke and down-on-her-luck woman in her late 20s who moved from Philadelphia to New York to pursue a career that didn’t quite pan out. Her quest for...
Zack Gottsagen is a young man with Down syndrome (also named Zak, no ‘c’) who is persistently trying to escape from his care facility in order to go meet his idol, a professional wrestler...
This is the third comedy I’ve seen in which someone mistakenly thinks anal beads for a necklace. The fact that I can’t remember the other two films should be an indicator of how memorable...
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