Challengers is one of the best movies released this year. The tennis drama stars Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor as three professional tennis players with a complex relationship on and off the court. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes, the film is vying for the industry’s highest accolades as Hollywood’s awards season kicks into high gear. Guadagnino,
Read MoreAfter many years of bathing in the most egregious clichés and emotional trappings, the romantic drama desperately needs reinvention. Look no further than director John Crowley, who made a potential solution to a decaying genre with We Live in Time, a clichéd romantic story told in a scattershot, non-linear narrative. Its structure is highly communicative, too, juxtaposing moments of high-spirited joy
Read MoreOh, young love. We all remember what that was like, right? The unbelievable, overwhelming feeling of being head over heels for someone swept up in the cascade of kisses, giggles, and lack of a proper understanding of how complicated love can be. That invincible feeling that nothing will ever come in the way of you and your partner and the incomparable
Read MoreThe Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon swiftly returned for season two, after only a short year-long intermission after the well-received first season. The second season features a bit of an expansion, as it adds longtime TWD alum Melissa McBride, returning to the role of Carol Peletier. Other returning cast includes Norman Reedus, Clemence Poesy, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Anne Charrier, Eriq Ebouaney, Laika
Read MoreFantastic Fest 2024 is well underway and I had a chance to catch two more films screening there, Sean Baker’s Anora and Saturday Night, based on the beginnings of Saturday Night Live. Check out what I thought below! Anora: A slice of life film with a powerful message The Florida project is one of the best slice-of-life pictures in a long
Read MoreAlthough The Batman sequel is seemingly far away, fans of both DC and the universe put together by Matt Reeves have much to look forward to with The Penguin. If the first episode is anything to go off for the rest of the series, we are in for an absolute treat of an actual television series. With seven more episodes, this
Read MoreRed Rooms is a festival favorite film from writer-director Pascal Plante. The movie is already streaming in its home country of Canada, and will release theatrically in the United States starting in September. The French-language film stars Juliette Gariépy as Kelly-Anne and Laurie Babin as Clementine. It’s best to go into Red Rooms with as little information as possible. The basic
Read MoreA directorial debut is a statement of intent. Especially when an actor makes the jump from in front to behind the camera, all eyes are on them to see, more or less, what they’re all about. By the time the title of her first film was announced, it was clear that Zoë Kravitz‘s transition would be a bold one. Although that
Read MoreIt’s incredible how much my opinion of M. Night Shyamalan shifted almost overnight after sitting in front of his 2019 masterpiece, Glass. Before, I thought the same thing as everyone else: great first few movies, but his current output has been lacking. I’m not ready to say that The Last Airbender and After Earth are masterpieces, far from it. However, something
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