The Weight is an ideal version of a “meat-and-potatoes flick” with both strongly developed character depth and absolutely visceral sequences properly spaced out within its runtime. But director Padraic McKinley plays at his clear inspirations of other films with a similar riveting grit and setup while making the most of its historical backdrop. This film is the vehicle for another great lead
Read MoreResident Evil does not follow the video game’s exact plotline. This has been a frequent complaint among many people online. While that’s true, none of Paul W. S. Anderson’s movies followed the exact plotline. For the most part, almost none of the movies follow the story, and the only one that came close flopped two years ago. So what is a filmmaker
Read MoreIn part 1 of our September 2026 Q&A with our Discord and Patreon members, Alex answers questions about upcoming Marvel Studios films Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, as well as about Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Champions/YoungAvengers! Editor’s Note: Small, independent websites like this one need all the support we can get to survive. Sharing articles, liking, commenting on posts, viewing and sharing
Read MoreAfter Marvel Studios fumbled the production of Bassam Tariq’s vision for Blade with Mahershala Ali, the director and actor both left the long-gestating MCU project to do Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. The action movie then used Ali’s training for Eric Brooks to instead put him in a tormented character study about a single Muslim father trying to do right
Read MorePrime Video’s Neagley series is the first spinoff of Reacher. This show has the opportunity to explore a character who has always existed close to Reacher while remaining quite different from him. Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) was initially introduced as a supporting character in the Alan Ritchson-led Reacher series, but she never really felt like one. Instead, the show made her
Read MoreAt Fantastic Fest 2026, the amazing people at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar have curated a lineup full of titles with great potential. We’re anticipating so many films that it was difficult to fit everything that deserves to be on my list. Last year at the film festival was incredible to experience with films like Bugonia, Primate, and so much more,
Read MoreFrench producer and director Louis Leterrier and screenwriter Matthew Robinson’s The Last House is flawed in its storytelling. The problems don’t just lie in setting a narrative in Seattle, Washington, but in believing that its populace feels alone. I remember visiting the area in late July and seeing how a beautiful community can coexist. That is, until the shooting in Seattle
Read MoreThe metaphor is heard loud and clear in Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, this year’s Palme d’Or-winning picture, as the evangelical, conservative Gheorghiu family moves into a highly progressive (and liberal) neighborhood in Norway. If you didn’t click it because you didn’t meet Mungiu’s latest at its terms, it’s an apt parallel for the return of conservatism, which has become more prominent around
Read MoreThere isn’t a better way to open the 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival than with a special screening of Na Hong-jin’s Hope. This is the South Korean genre artist’s first feature in ten years, following the masterful The Wailing in 2016. It’s been a while, which made the prospect of a Cannes premiere all the more special for
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