Double iSmart has generated significant buzz as it gears up for its August 15 release, coinciding with the Indian Independence day. Consequently, the film is set to face stiff competition, clashing with several other major Bollywood releases on the same day. As the highly anticipated sequel to the 2019 blockbuster iSmart Shankar, Double iSmart carries … Read more
Poll: What’s Your Favorite Eli Roth Movie? While Borderlands may not be the hit Lionsgate was hoping for, let’s look back at some of Eli Roth’s better movies and pick our favorite! August 11th 2024, 9:00am Mo Gators Mo Problems: Alexandre Aja returning for Crawl 2 Alexandre Aja returning to direct Crawl 2, which will … Read more
The following post contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine. Channing Tatum is still hoping to bring his Gambit movie back to life five years after it was cancelled. The 44-year-old actor had initially hoped to play the Marvel Comics character in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine but he was unavailable for filming so the role went … Read more
The conundrums of life are given a rather more conventional depiction in this fictional biographical film, directed by James Marsh, whose reductive work on Stephen Hawking in his 2014 “The Theory of Everything” doesn’t exactly give one hope that he’ll do Beckett justice. Shot in black-and-white, the movie almost giddily partakes in components that Beckett’s … Read more
The movie doesn’t go in the other direction, either, and become the decadently committed wallow in ephemeral pleasures it could’ve gotten away with being. (The audience is going to be 95 percent people who like the band and/or jazz-adjacent music anyway.) There are references to internal conflicts that the band had over the years but it’s not delved … Read more
The remarkably boring Charlotte Kirk plays Scarlett Monaghan, a woman approached by a suave gentleman named Robert McNaughton (Philip Winchester) while out with her deadly dull boyfriend at the club one night. Robert and Scarlett have instant chemistry, so they pretty quickly dispatch with Mr. Wrong and begin a steamy affair before Scarlett discovers how … Read more
And yet, a documentary series can’t be judged on intention alone. Simien assembles an impressive roster of talking heads (academics, stars, directors, and producers) to talk about the history of Hollywood from a Black perspective. His thesis is sound—Black people are imperative to Hollywood’s existence—and the joy he injects into the subject is pure. But … Read more
On its face, “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In” is a conventional us-against-them crime saga about Chan Lok-kwun (Raymond Lam), a luckless refugee who settles down in Kowloon, the dystopian-looking tenement city of the movie’s title. Chan’s allies treat each other like family despite some mischievous double-dealing and back-biting; his enemies only think of themselves. … Read more
Focusing in particular on St. Joseph’s Mission in Williams Lake, BC, Canada (closed in 1981), the documentary pieces together the testimony of former students and anthropological investigators to unearth the damning details of the violent systematic oppression that was allowed to inflict trauma and death upon a century of generations of their community. What ensues … Read more
To qualify for the program, the fathers have to complete a 10-week program to strengthen their fathering skills, which means sharing some painful experiences, regrets, and fears. One man says it is the first time he has ever been in an environment where men talk about feelings. As the title indicates, Patton and co-director Natalie … Read more