It would be a vast understatement to call Hope anything less than a lot of a movie. A genre-blending, over-the-top, no-holds-barred action sci-fi thriller of the most epic proportions, the likes of which seem poised to draw a line straight down the middle for audiences. On one end, you have those
GET READY FOR YOUR MIND TO BE BLOWN... In 2020, the McManus brothers came out with a film called The Block Island Sound that became a bit of an underground cult hit. I found it to be a compelling little mystery, that put this directing duo on my radar. Five years later they have returned with
In promotional materials, Foe described itself as a “sci-fi psychological thriller.” I’m a big fan of both sci-fi and psychological thrillers, so I was excited for this one. Unfortunately, Foe delivered very few - if any - thrills. And the sci-fi? Well. The kindest word that comes to mind is
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar