‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Grinds to a Halt After a Hat Trick of Stellar Episodes
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 4. House of the Dragon has been absolutely on fire with Season 3, and not just because it's dominating HBO Max's streaming charts. The Game…
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‘Bosch’s Titus Welliver Is the Clear Standout of MGM+’s New Crime Drama ‘The Westies’
MGM+ is the latest streamer trying to carve out a space for itself in the hyper-competitive world of 2020s television. Its newest offering is the crime drama The Westies, co-created by modern master of the genre Chris Brancato — the…
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In God’s Hands | Film Threat
Faith and undercover police work make an unlikely duo, but writer-director Ralph Cinque teams them up in In God’s Hands. A crime story where your badge and your heart are inseparable. Detective Tyrell Banks (Claude Xavier) is still picking up…
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The Death of Robin Hood Review: Stripping the Legend Bare
There have been countless interpretations of Robin Hood across film and television, but The Death of Robin Hood takes an unexpectedly severe route. Rather than celebrate the mythology of the noble outlaw who steals from the rich and gives to…
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Pressure Review | Flickreel
Anyone remotely familiar with World War II likely knows the outcome of D-Day. For those who aren’t, I’ll avoid any “spoilers” in this review. Whether or not you know what happened on D-Day, Pressure is a tense thriller without a…
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Jack Dylan Grazer, Alexis Bledel & Bill Camp Serve Up A Baffling Buffet Of Nothing
Every once in a while—or, objectively, more often—a film comes along that seems to defy any logical explanation for its existence. It’s easy to strip a film down to its core, focusing on the elements that define basic filmmaking: the…
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John Cena & Eric André’s Netflix Comedy Overstays Its Welcome
I really wanted to like Little Brother. The new Netflix comedy from director Matt Spicer takes John Cena and Eric André, two comedic performers I have appreciated on screen in the past, and unites them via an easy-to-sell premise: A…
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‘Minions & Monsters’ Is the Slapstick Madness This Franchise Should’ve Been All Along
What if I told you there was a big Universal movie coming out in theaters this month, starring Oscar winners and all-time greats like Christoph Waltz and Jeff Bridges, telling a story about the fantastical history of Hollywood's golden age?…
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Prime Video’s ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel ‘Elle’ Fails to Match the Original Movie’s Charm
25 years ago, the world was introduced to the sweetest, most wholesome sorority-girl-turned-Harvard-law-student in Legally Blonde. Iconically played by Reese Witherspoon, Elle Woods is virtually impossible not to like. She's exuberantly positive, kind-hearted, and can be doggedly determined if she…
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Growing Up Without Leaving Play Behind
There is a certain risk that comes with making a fifth Toy Story film. Every entry since the original has carried the weight of feeling like a conclusion, only to find another meaningful place to go. After the bittersweet farewell…
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Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
NOW ON HBO! When James Kaminsky and Kate “Kitty” Kaminsky welcomed their son Melvin Kaminsky on June 28th, 1926, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, nobody could have predicted that he would become a comedy legend. Growing up…
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Samara Weaving & Kyle Gallner Bring A Wounded Spark To Adam Rehmeier’s Twangy Crime Romance
There is a long, bruised tradition of lovers-on-the-run movies, stories where romance and danger blur until neither half of the equation can survive without the other. “Carolina Caroline” knows that lineage well, but filmmaker Adam Rehmeier’s film finds its own…
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