A Look at an Underrated Rock Icon

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A Look at an Underrated Rock Icon

Home Movie Reviews ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything' Review: A Look at the Duality of One of Rock & Roll’s Greatest Icons | Sundance 2023 The documentary from Lisa Cortés explores the legacy of Little Richard and how massive his…

Exceptional Beings | Film Threat

Co-directed by Christian Kazadi and screenwriter Njedeh Anthony, the fantasy drama Exceptional Beings posits that the ancient Greek gods do exist. Athena (Ciarra Carter) despises humanity, viewing them as insects. Her first reaction to anything is violence, as she’s always…

Shotgun Wedding Review | The Movie Blog

Every time I think I’m done with J- Lo movies she does something to pull me right back in. I go a while in between movies but then I see something like Shotgun Wedding and I’m back in! In Shotgun…

A Pulse-Raising Actioner With Ample Thrills & A Messy Script

Home Movie Reviews Hunt Review: A Pulse-Raising Actioner With Ample Thrills & A Messy Script The script fails to stand on its own, so it is up to Lee Jung-jae to craft a compelling narrative through his directing and performance.…

Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich-Fronted Erotic Thriller Is A Series of Missed Opportunities [Sundance]

On second thought, we may have let our collective nostalgia for erotic thrillers get a tad out of hand. Chloe Domont’s “Fair Play” seems, at least at the level of its inception, to be a thought exercise: what would it…

Anne Hathaway & Thomasin McKenzie Film Defies Expectations

Eileen, the first film from William Oldroyd since 2016’s Lady Macbeth made Florence Pugh a star, is more defined by what it isn't than what it is. Like his previous film, Eileen is an exercise in restraint, as this story,…

Loses Its Subject in Favor of a Personal Story

Home Movie Reviews ‘Kim’s Video’ Review: Loses Its Subject in Favor of a Personal Story | Sundance 2023 Directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin get lost in their own involvement while trying to document the story of Kim's Video. Image…

Little Richard: I Am Everything

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! If you don’t know Little Richard, you will because director Lisa Cortés holds nothing back in Little Richard: I Am Everything. The filmmaker reveals the legendary rock star’s life and his infinite influence on popular music…

Jonathan Majors Shoulders The Weight of This Incel, Bodybuilder Drama [Sundance]

In Greek mythology, it holds that for a time, gods and mortals mingled freely, creating demigods whose sole aim was to prove their worth so they might join their celestial kin. For the Greeks, the gods who ruled on mount…

Fuqua’s Latest Historical Drama Is Gorgeous But Underbaked

Home Movie Reviews Emancipation Review: Fuqua's Latest Historical Drama Is Gorgeous But Underbaked While Emancipation contains beautiful cinematography amidst brutalities of oppression, it conveys very little about the man who should easily inspire. It feels as if there’s always a…

Jason Momoa Produced Doc Incisively Explores the Ramifications of Deep-Sea Mining [Sundance]

The prospect of deep-sea mining may seem like a solution to our ever-growing fuel crisis. Polymetallic nodules that sit on the ocean floor are made up of the very type of metals that so-called ‘green’ companies need to build batteries.…

Mariel Molino Tries to Carry a Tepid Thriller Series

What would you get if you took the premise of murder and mystery of Only Murders in the Building, stripped it of its humor, crossed it all with some of the elements of the spectacular series Servant, and gave it…

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