Revenge Is Best Served With Explosives
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Andor Season 2 Episode 6. As the final episode of this week’s Andor arc opens, it’s hard to believe that we’re already saying goodbye to BBY 3. Thematically, this arc has been…
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Editor's Note: The recap below contains spoilers for Andor Season 2 Episode 5. Andor Season 2 Episode 5 breaks with tradition and opens without the fanfare of the normal opening title screen. Instead, it begins with the static of a…
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The Name on Everybody’s Lips Is Ghorman
Editor's Note: The below recap contains spoilers for Andor Season 2 Episode 4. With Andor Season 2 Episode 4, we arrive at our first one-year time jump following the nail-biting events of the three-episode season premiere. It’s also the first…
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Thunderbolts* Review
Thunderbolts* might not be a game-changing MCU movie, although it is a distinct one bolstered by mature themes and a strong cast. The post Thunderbolts* Review appeared first on Flickreel. Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and…
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Apple TV+ Cooks Up a Delicious, Lusty Take on French Culinary History — With a Side of Espionage
Humans share many common denominators, but few of our driving forces hold more power than food. At its best, food denotes stability and comfort. Eating the right dish, made by the right hands, evokes memories of specific people and periods:…
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Exactly What The MCU Needs Right Now & I’m More Excited About The Franchise’s Future Than I’ve Been In Years
For all 17 years the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been around, few Marvel Studios movies have explicitly tackled mental health with the depth and deftness of Thunderbolts*. Certainly, Iron Man 3 sees Tony Stark wrestling with PTSD from the events…
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Marvel’s Shamed Misfits Defeat Self-Doubt & Find Their Heroic Purpose
You’ve seen this story before, the notion of a disparate group of irredeemable characters who discover a modicum of redemption through heroic acts they themselves didn’t expect to commit. Yet, this is also just classic archetypical storytelling, because what separates Marvel’s…
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I Think the MCU Just Saved Itself With an Explosive, Surprisingly Heartfelt Superhero Movie
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has too many characters and unfinished stories. The MCU has had this issue for a while; they dedicated several minutes to introductions in the climax of Avengers: Endgame, they’ve added tons of new characters in recent…
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The Surfer Review | Flickreel
Hey, ya wanna see a guy get tortured for roughly an hour and forty minutes? What’s that, you’re on the fence? Well, what if I told you it was Nicolas Cage? Thought that would get your attention! Whether he’s being…
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Rainey Qualley Puts Artistry on the Line in Surface-Level Music Drama
Many pop stars have gone through thick and thin at the hands of labels who had full control of their earlier discography, leaving them no choice but to re-record their songs to, in a sense, reclaim them. Off the Record…
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David Dastmalchian’s Latest Supernatural Horror Is No ‘Late Night with the Devil’
Horror has a lot of subgenres, from slashers to monster movies and everything in between, and supernatural and possession films have been among the most popular for many decades. Classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist did it best, and…
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This B-Movie Creature Feature Gives Rodents the ‘Piranha’ Treatment’
Friends, I love a good "bad movie." I love crappy effects, terrible acting and shoddy production values. Some of the most entertaining movies of all time have fallen into the "bad movie" category and exhibited all the above traits. I…
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