Black Bag Review | Flickreel
On more than one occasion, Michael Fassbender goes fishing in Black Bag. These scenes sum up the movie’s tone. Black Bag is presented as a spy thriller, which it is. Despite the presence of Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris, though,…
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Chris Evans Needs To Take a Page From Sebastian Stan’s Playbook Before It’s Too Late
At this point, Chris Evans' star power is under serious threat of burning out for good. Since his alleged retirement from playing Captain America in the MCU, Evans has wasted his prime years on stuff like Red One and Ghosted…
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Why Tom Hiddleston’s ‘High-Rise’ Is Better Than Its Source Novel
More than once throughout his 50-year career, British writer J.G. Ballard's writing turned out to be eerily prescient. From the more straight sci-fi of his early-60s work to the surreal and often controversial satires of the '70s, Ballard had an…
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DCU’s ‘Lanterns’ Series Casts Nicole Ari Parker As John Stewart’s Mother
Lanterns is one of the most anticipated upcoming superhero shows, as fans pray that the new HBO series will finally do the Green Lantern Corps justice in live-action. Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler will bring John Stewart and Hal Jordan…
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Menendez Brothers’ Risk Assessment Plan Floated as New Statewide Policy
As hope for a prison release for convicted double murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez slimmed on Monday (now that a high-profile and highly politicized resentencing bid has all but vanished), California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to take the playbook he…
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‘High Rollers’ Star Swen Temmel Talks Teaming Up with Travolta for the ‘Cash Out’ Sequel
Swen Temmel reprises his role from 'Cash Out' in the new movie 'High Rollers,' a heist thriller that reunites him with John Travolta and sees Gina Gershon joining the cast. 'High Rollers' also stars Lukas Haas and Quavo is in…
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Roman Reigns Finally Gets Revenge on Seth Rollins and CM Punk, and More Highlights You May Have Missed on ‘WWE Raw’ on Netflix
It was another explosive night on WWE Raw, and this time, the action took over Madison Square Garden. The long-awaited steel cage match between CM Punk and Seth Rollins delivered everything fans hoped for—until Roman Reigns made sure neither man…
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“… The Visual Approach of the Documentary is Deeply Influenced by Amish and Mennonite Norms”: Elaine Epstein on her SXSW-Premiering Arrest the Midwife
Arrest the Midwife As its nonsensical title might imply, Elaine Epstein’s Arrest the Midwife centers on the plight of three certified professional midwives who, after the death of a newborn (ironically, at a hospital one of the midwives rushed her…
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The Unexpected Buddy Comedy I Didn’t Know I Needed
The Accountant 2's best scenes have nothing to do with guns or hand-to-hand combat. In fact, when I saw the film last night at its SXSW world premiere, the audience was laughing along with it more than they were gasping…
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Chris Pratt & Millie Bobbie Brown Swing & Miss
The commonplace, overused narrative about filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo, aka The Russo Brothers, is that ever since their tremendously successful Marvel run—five films culminating with two of the highest-grossing box office films of all time, “Avengers: Infinity War” and…
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Anthony & Joe Russo Detail ‘Doomsday’ and ‘Secret Wars’ Return
The world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was forever changed by the Russo brothers when they delivered the most successful, emotional, and epic superhero movie in history with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. In fact, the film was so big that Marvel…
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Scheana Shay Spills the Tea on Her ‘Masked Singer’ Experience
When it comes to reality stars who are always on our mind, Scheana Shay frequently tops that list. In fact, when Lady Gaga was placed in a lie detector test, she admitted that she'll miss her the most on the…
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