One Fast Move (2024) Movie Review & Ending Explained: Who Truly Wins in the Ultimate Race Between a Father and a Son?
The racing film genre is saturated with predictable narratives. It’s a challenge to carve out a fresh storyline amid the…
Kultus Iblis (2024) Movie Ending Explained: Can the Twins Escape the Ancient Evil?
Shamanic horror increasingly feels like the genre’s most badly exploited, overdone, wretched outings. There seems to be little variation, innovation,…
18×2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024) Movie Ending Explained: Does Jimmy Get to Meet Ami Again?
Directed by Michihito Fujii, “18×2 Beyond Youthful Days” (Qing chun 18×2 tong wang you ni de lü cheng) is a…
Lady in the Lake Episode 5 Recap & Ending Explained: Does Maddie Find Any Connection Between Cleo and Tessie’s Cases?
The chaotic episode 5 of “Lady in the Lake” is now streaming on Apple TV+. Its previous episode followed Maddie…
Death Will Come (La Mort viendra, 2024) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: Noir Drama Cranks Up Atmospherics but Fumbles in Character Work
It’s fascinating to encounter noir thrillers that aren’t entirely waylaid by an affinity for moody violence, so much so as…
The Instigators (2024) Movie Review – Casey Affleck & Matt Demon mess things up as the funniest comedy duo since ‘The Nice Guys’
Comedy duos in movies have not worked for a while. I’m not sure what has taken over the sub-genre that…
Borderlands (2024) Movie Review – An insufferably noisy and embarrassing video game adaptation
Video game movies have never truly worked. If we forget the recent, painstakingly constructed worldbuilding and character work done in…
Goodfellas and the Deconstruction of the Masculine Fantasy
The first time I watched “Goodfellas” (1990), I was not impressed. It wasn’t the first mafia movie I had seen,…