At this point, we’ve all seen enough documentaries about 20th-century musical geniuses that the average viewer could direct one in their sleep: archival footage of the greatest-hits performances, behind-the-scenes clips showing the snatches of solitary humanity underneath the currents of…
Read moreFamed horror filmmaker Eli Roth's career is headed into unexpected and only partially explored territory. On the horizon is the genre mishmash/video game adaptation, Borderlands, forecast to be a science fiction adventure comedy, and starring two of his more recent…
Read moreDaredevil lives! After six years of waiting, the man without fear will return to streaming with Charlie Cox taking up the sticks as Matt Murdock once again. The actor originally starred in the Netflix series Daredevil, which was canned after…
Read moreLetitia Wright has been in some of the biggest films of all time, playing a superhero for Marvel Studios. But her role in the new movie, “The Silent Twins,” directed by celebrated Polish auteur Agnieszka Smoczynska (“Lure“), might have been…
Read moreIt’s incredible how much popular media culture has radically changed since the release of The Avengers a decade ago. Comic book films had certainly been popular before Joss Whedon’s comic book crossover event, as the Spider-Man, X-Men, and The Dark…
Read moreThe MCU is the biggest franchise today, dominating the box office and pop culture and the highest-grossing chart. But the famous/infamous serial nature of the franchise required viewers to constantly keep up with all its content, which includes thirty movies,…
Read moreIn today’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo puts on his “investigative reporter of some repute” hat and talks about Miramax’s latest release, “Confess, Fletch,” with the director Greg Mottola (“Superbad,” “Adventureland”) and star Jon Hamm (“Mad Men,” “Top Gun:…
Read moreAs superhero movies are starting to wean out of mass audience's favor, the next big thing is kind of up in the air. While we're starting to see an ant-sized surge in mid-budget studio films, it seems as though the…
Read moreRian Johnson's Knives Out made waves in 2019, delivering a jaw-dropping, star-studded, mysterious, and brilliantly complex whodunit, that quite easily ranks among the best. Since the first Knives Out floored its audience, fans have been clambering for a sequel to…
Read moreA subversive throwback to ’70s sleaze, “X” has more on its mind than shock value. That’s not to say that down-and-dirty pleasures were hard to come by in Ti West’s A24-produced slasher (which hit theaters earlier this year), about amateur…
Read moreS.S. Rajamouli's RRR is already making quite a buzz in the annual awards circuit, including the Oscars. RRR has managed to emerge as a surprise contender — for an Indian film — in the Oscars Best Picture race. While opinions…
Read moreA few Easter eggs have shown up hinting that Deadpool 3 might crossover with Loki season two. Marvel Studios Deadpool 3 and Loki season two are a couple of the most anticipated upcoming projects in the MCU. And now it’s…
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