From Book to Screen: It
We’re back at the Stephen King Book to Screen series! At long last, we reach one of the most anticipated and high-profile titles of the...
Review: Black Adam
To say that the DC Extended Universe has been beleaguered would be an understatement. After the false start of giving Zac Snyder full creative control...
Film Review – My Policeman
There is one glaring omission with My Policeman (2022), and it is passion. Forbidden love, social conventions, guilt, and forgiveness are all key ingredients for a romantic drama. While those elements are certainly here, the final product is undercooked. This is a stuffy affair. Its languid approach…
Film Review – Decision to Leave
If there is one thing to expect from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, it’s the unexpected. From The Vengeance Trilogy, Thirst (2009), Stoker (2013), and The Handmaiden (2016), Park is a master of keeping us on our toes. Even when we have a familiarity with his set up, he has a knack for…
The Peripheral Review – Psychological Sci-Fi Capitalizes On Twists And Characters
Based on the book of the same name (by William Gibson – pioneer of the cyberpunk genre), The Peripheral boasts that it’s “from the creators of Westworld,” and there is little that would give audiences a better idea of the style and character interplay. From the perspective of simply the viewing experience, this might as […]
Wanna-Be Antihero ‘BLACK ADAM’ A Slave to Formula
Between A Rock and a Hard Place Heroes don’t kill. Or at least that’s what Black Adam tells us, seemingly having forgotten that arguably this same universe’s most famous hero, Batman, himself was beating criminals to a bloody corpse not five years prior. That Black Adam is predicated on the will-he-won’t-he of Dwayne Johnson choosing…