OPPENHEIMER is a grandiose, hyperverbal meditation on scientific and political power
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
We've grown up in the shadow of the ultimate destructive knowledge.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
We've grown up in the shadow of the ultimate destructive knowledge.
Directed by Rob Marshall
Written by David Magee
Starring: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Ben Whishaw
Running time: 2 hours and 10 minutes
MPAA rating: PG for cripes sake it’s Mary Poppins!
by Hunter Bush
Long-gap sequels, or "legacy sequels", are a tough nut to crack. Picking up an intellectual property from ten, twenty, thirty years or more ago, dusting it off and making something hopefully new and exciting out of it isn't as easy an undertaking as you might think. You have to draw enough from the original source material(s) to please older fans while remaining accessible to new audience members. I am immensely happy to say that Mary Poppins Returns is one of the best I've seen.
Read MoreDirected by John Krasinski (2018)
by Sandy DeVito
A Quiet Place has, most readily, sequences of high tension that help it come quite close to feeling like a cohesive narrative, mostly by simply dragging you along at a break-neck pace, but after the credits rolled I found myself remembering more and more that is either clumsily executed, feels incomplete, or is just too basic and vague to leave a lasting impact. Like last year's It Comes At Night, we are thrust immediately into the post-apoc world of Krasinski's film without our footing, trusting the narrative to give us clues in time. Most of the major bits of exposition in the first twenty minutes are given to us, literally, on a dry-erase board. Call me picky, but I wanted more, and I wanted it more creatively.
Read MoreDirected by Doug Liman (2014)
by Rosalie Kicks!, Old Sport at Moviejawn
As we creep closer and closer to apocalyptic doom there is truly only one person that pops in my mind that is qualified to save us: Tommy C. This pint-sized dude with the million-dollar smile has been saving humanity from world-ending disasters for years. Look at his resume: Legend, War of the Worlds, Oblivion. Honestly is there any other pair of hands that you would want gripping our fate? Have you seen how fast he can run? Have you seen his smile?
Read MoreDirected by Tate Taylor (2016)
by Rosalie Kicks!, Old Sport and Jaime Davis, The Fixer
Rosalie and Jaime decided to tag team their review of The Girl on the Train, a movie that’s just way, way too easy to hate on. Originally posted on Cinepunx.
Jaime: The Girl on the Train is a book I once read to get through a Thanksgiving vacation spent at home in Chicago. It was recommended to me by some friends – pitched as a sister novel to Gone Girl, psychological thriller/mystery/suspense trash that you can get through in literally two days. I read The Girl on the Train so freakin’ fast – pretty much in between four helpings of Thanksgiving food, two family rounds of Cards Against Humanity, 16 hours of sleeping, and approximately 3.5 Hallmark movies (my mom loves them. I think I might too?) Anyway, I enjoyed reading The Girl on the Train. Watching The Girl on the Train, not so much. Because honestly there is not one interesting thing about the way this film was shot, acted, directed, edited, styled, etc. It’s just boring female-centric John Grisham-esque garbage packaged with pretty actors (I love you, Emily Blunt) better suited for cable movie status.
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