Angelina Jolie returns to the director’s chair with her latest feature, “Without Blood”. It’s the first film she has directed since her brilliant and in some ways underrated “First They Killed My Father”. That 2017 Khmer-language biographical thriller told the true story of a five-year-old boy who was seized and forced to train as a … Continue reading
With “Operation Kabul”, Hungarian director Zsombor Dyga offers a striking point-of-view on the disastrous 2021 United States-led NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. The events resulted in the collapse of the Afghan government and military followed by a chaotic mass exodus of civilian non-combatants. The Taliban swooped in and immediately took control of the city of Kabul … Continue reading
With “Mortal Kombat” already rebooted for the big screen, I guess it’s no surprise that its long-time fighting game rival “Street Fighter” would try and do the same thing. Both wildly popular video game franchises already had movie adaptations in the mid 1990s. Now they’re both back at it with mixed results at best. “Mortal … Continue reading
If you have ever wondered what it was like to be swallowed by a whale, boy do I have the movie for you. With “Whalefall”, director Brian Duffield tackles that very predicament. But here’s the thing – no matter how silly and outrageous it sounds, “Whalefall” manages to surprise in several interesting ways. Whether it’s … Continue reading
In “The Beast”, Samuel L. Jackson plays the President of the United States if he were Samuel L. Jackson. He has a different name and certainly a different job title. But otherwise this is Samuel L. Jackson playing the screen version of himself that we’ve all come to know over his fifty-plus-year career. There’s even … Continue reading
While the original “The Exorcist” is widely considered to be a horror movie classic, the six movies that followed it haven’t developed into a franchise I’ve been all that interested in. But that changed with the first trailer for “The Exorcist: Martyrs”. While it still proudly sports the Exorcist name, “Martyrs” offers a radically fresh … Continue reading
