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Yorgos Lanthimos’s "Bugonia" is a Macabre Masterpiece of Paranoia
Yorgos Lanthimos, one of the 21st century's most distinctive and audacious filmmakers, returns with a work of bracing intensity: Bugonia. A chillingly funny, absurdist black comedy, the film is an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 South Korean cult classic, Save the Green Planet! The plot centers on the kidnapping of Michelle Fuller (a chillingly precise Emma Stone), the high-powered CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, Auxolith. Her captor is Teddy Gatz (Jes
Brad Willows
Oct 26


DEFCON-1: Inside Kathryn Bigelow's Tense Nuclear Thriller, "A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE"
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE , the long-awaited feature from Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, plunges the audience into a nightmare scenario that is as politically chilling as it is viscerally terrifying. Set almost entirely within the confines of various governmental command centers, the film is an airtight, real-time political thriller. The plot is deceptively simple: a single Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is detected on trajectory toward the continental U
Brad Willows
Oct 26


Richard Linklater's 'Blue Moon' Offers a Poignant and Powerful Glimpse into the Final Act of an Artist
The enduring and profoundly fruitful cinematic collaboration between director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke, stretching back three decades to Before Sunrise, continues with this transfixing character study. That iconic trilogy, filmed across 27 years, along with the decade-long, sporadically shot Boyhood, provided both men with an intimate understanding of artistic symbiosis. This shared history lends a poignant emotional resonance to their reunion in Blue Moon, a f
Brad Willows
Oct 26


'Song Sung Blue' Captures Resilience and Romance in True-Life Musical Tribute
Director Craig Brewer’s captivating film, Song Sung Blue , chronicles the remarkable true story of a working-class couple whose enduring love and shared commitment to their musical dream sustain them through a series of profound personal setbacks. Far from being mere sentimental melodrama, this retelling of the journey of a Neil Diamond tribute act is grounded in authentic emotion and uplifted by an irresistible score. The film’s success hinges on the magnetic chemistry and w
Jonathan Parsons
Oct 26


Warner Bros. Discovery Begin Taking STeps Toward Sale
The persistent rumors surrounding the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) have been unequivocally confirmed, with the company’s board of directors formally announcing that it has "initiated a review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value." This is the first official acknowledgment that the media conglomerate is open to a major corporate restructuring or sale, a shift triggered by what the company termed "unsolicited interest" from "multiple parties." All Opt
Jonathan Parsons
Oct 21


With "FRANKENSTEIN", Guillermo del Toro delivers the definitive tragedy of creator and creation
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is a lavish, epic-scale return to the source material—Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel—that honors the book’s roots as a philosophical tragedy rather than a simple horror tale. The film opens in a cold, vast 1857 setting near the Arctic, a fitting geographical metaphor for the isolation and despair to come, before flashing back to the opulent, yet emotionally sterile, world of Geneva. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant, arrogant student
Jonathan Parsons
Oct 16


ANEMONE: The Agony of the Absent Father
ANEMONE is a relentlessly dark and weighty psychological drama centered on the Stoker family, a lineage fractured by violence, faith, and the long shadow of the past. The film follows Ray Stoker (Daniel Day-Lewis), an embittered, abrasive man who has lived as a hermit for two decades in the remote, mossy wilderness of northeastern England. Ray's self-imposed exile stems from deeply buried trauma related to his service in the British Army during the Northern Irish "Troubles,"
Brad Willows
Oct 12


A Beautiful Mess: Why Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt Drowns in Its Own Ambiguity
Luca Guadagnino's latest film, After the Hunt , dives headlong into the treacherous, morally ambiguous waters of contemporary academic and social dynamics, specifically the fallout of a sexual misconduct allegation on a prestigious university campus. Bolstered by a star-studded cast including Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, the film attempts to dissect issues of power, privilege, generational conflict, and accountability in the #MeToo era. The result is a messy, beautiful,
Brad Willows
Oct 12
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