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Primate is not subtle, and it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s a B-movie in spirit and an A-movie in execution, gleefully splattering the screen with
September 19, 2025
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Primate is not subtle, and it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s a B-movie in spirit and an A-movie in execution, gleefully splattering the screen with
Enter Black Rabbit, an eight-episode limited series created by Zach Baylin, who previously wrote King Richard, Creed III, and The Order. This time, Bateman teams
Which brings us to the inevitable fan debate, the ending. For the book faithful, there’s a raw, ambiguous power to the final moments that some
Which brings us to their second feature, Bring Her Back, a film that asks the ultimate question of grief: “How far would you go to
In the annals of American independent cinema, few films have the improbable origin story, and the quiet gravitational pull of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep.
Watching America’s Team is to be reminded that football is not just a game but a narrative engine, one that churns out myths as readily
And that third act? Good luck. It’s audacious. It’s brutal. It’s batshit. It’s the kind of finale that reminds you you’re alive, because your heart
So what is Mac and Me? Is it a failed E.T. knockoff? A cautionary tale about unchecked corporate synergy? A secretly progressive film that centers
Frailty is horror with a soul, a brain, and, most disturbingly, a body count that feels frighteningly plausible. It’s a film about family, faith, and
The result? The funniest film since “Netflix and chill” was still edgy. Perhaps it’s time to update the phrase: The Naked Gun and fuck. Because
There are filmmakers you respect, and then there’s Mike Judge; our unassuming, soft-spoken Nostradamus of middlebrow America. If Kubrick dissected humanity’s cosmic anxieties, Spielberg gave
If Marvel wants to course-correct, they could do worse than watch James Gunn’s Superman on loop for a few days. Or maybe, just maybe, stop
Before Ari Aster made us afraid of attics, flower crowns, or what a mother might do with a piano wire, he was dreaming of spurs,
By the spring of 2025, it became clear that horror; the moody misfit of cinema, the goth cousin at the awards season cotillion; was no
The show’s biggest flaw; its inability to decide if it wants to be heartfelt or farcical; is also, weirdly, its strength. Life, as Too Much
The film’s emotional core, though, is a quiet scene in Kansas. Just a conversation between a son and his parents (Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva
If Night of the Living Dead was Romero’s Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment, The Crazies was his concept album no one understood until three decades later, probably while
If you were alive in the late ’70s or early ’80s; or were simply the kind of child raised on VHS tapes and questionable parental
Which brings us to Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh installment in a franchise that should have been gracefully fossilized long ago. But Hollywood, like the
Some movies sneak up on you. Others charge in with a cape, a torch, and a crossbow. The Monster Squad, Fred Dekker’s gloriously goofy 1987
Every few months, without fail, something wonderful happens in the land of cinema. A rumble is heard. A leather boot steps into frame. Somewhere, a
So of course, Hollywood did what Hollywood does best: upgraded the software, doubled the runtime, and deleted the subtlety. Enter M3GAN 2.0, the cinematic equivalent
In the end, Boyle hasn’t mellowed with age. He’s just become sharper, meaner, and more deliberate. He doesn’t just want to scare you; he wants
Let me start with a warning: Jennifer Lynch’s Chained is not a movie you casually throw on during date night unless your idea of a
Every ghost story begins with love. Every haunting begins with a full heart. Mine began when I became a widow at 38.
In the end, The Fantastic Mr. Fox is not merely an adaptation but a kind of artistic convergence. It’s a meeting of Dahl’s mischievous imagination
Bresson was a man allergic to frills, whether it be cinematic, emotional, decorative, or otherwise. So when, in 1959, he wrote his first original screenplay
Almodóvar, of course, has never been in the business of quaint. His films arrive lacquered in bright colors and moral ambiguity, populated by characters who
In the end, Sundays and Cybele remains a masterwork of emotional subtlety. It’s a tragic, beautiful tale of innocence, loneliness, and the ways broken people
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of those rare films that sings every single line; and still manages to sneak up and wallop you right
