Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League doesn't quite sound like a real movie, right? Seriously, just read back the title to yourself. It sounds more like the homemade workings of a middle schooler with dreams of writing and an imagination to match. And yet, it is an actual movie, and from Warner Bros.
Video game adaptions have always proved challenging in cinema. The transfer of playability to watchability has far more failures than successes, and that's not even including the long list of ill advised Uwe Bol films. You would think that videos games, packed with complex protagonists, intriguing
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
