25 years later, Shanghai Triad is still a unique take on the gangster genre
By the mid-90s, the “Gangster Film” had become a pretty overstuffed genre in the film industry. Around for practically as long as films ...
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The new Frosty The Snowman will be voiced by Jason Momoa
Christmas movie news is coming early this year it would seem. Out of all the people to cast as the voice of Frosty ...
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Review: The Old Guard
Sometime ten years ago (read: a few months) I reviewed Netflix’s Extraction, proclaiming it was a decent film and all we were really getting ...
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Lake Michigan Monster smashes together The Lighthouse and SpongeBob SquarePants
One of my favorite comfort-food films is Roger Corman’s 1957 “classic,” Attack of the Crab Monsters. It’s a bizarre and nonsensical ball in ...
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Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Every now and then you come across a film that is a light in a dark place. A film so utterly kitsch and ...
C What’s On: The Criterion Channel’s July 2020 Lineup
Another month and another wave of new content hits the Criterion Channel! Keeping indoors during the heat and global pandemic, the Channel is cooking ...
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Deep Analysis: Watchmen
You can’t find a more influential comic book than Watchmen. Watchmen was a 12 issue comic book limited series released from 1986-1987 that received critical acclaim ...
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RESPECT Trailer
I have literal chills as I write this after seeing the first look at RESPECT. Jennifer Hudson has 100% done it again as ...
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Review: Artemis Fowl
There’s a part of me that feels bad for Artemis Fowl. Based on a series of young adult novels, the film adaptation of this ...
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Review: Shirley
Creating a movie about any real life historical figure is always a difficult task. The struggle of portraying their life usually comes down ...
Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
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Why can’t I seem to find interest in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet?
For a little over two decades now, director Christopher Nolan has been responsible for hit after hit at the box-office. With most of ...