The 15 Best Movies of 2022 So Far

Just one year ago, the century-long tradition of watching new films in theaters appeared to be in seriously dangerous trouble. Half-measure attempts to reopen theaters amidst the ongoing surges in COVID-19 cases kept a lot of people at home during…

‘The Batman’ review: The Dark Knight returns with a more hopeful take on vengeance

Matt Reeves’ The Batman will likely go down as a mold-breaking movie when it comes to the current state of superhero fatigue, where at this point, most comic-book film franchises have started to blur together, not really going for a…

DC FanDome 2021 Highlights

The 2021 DC FanDome event brought a lot to the table in the form of teasers and behind-the-scenes featurettes for a massive slate of shows, films, video games and, of course, comics that are set to release in the next…

The Lighthouse Review: A Fatally Ambitious Shipwreck

When the lights go down and the movie starts, it’s impossible not to feel captivated by the two black bars bordering the left and right of Robert Eggers’ new film The Lighthouse. For modern viewers used to the 4:3 of…

‘High Life’ Review – Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche search for meaning in the depths of space

The opening moments of High Life are jarring in their dissimilarity. Here we are on a hollow, almost completely abandoned ship out in deep space with a set design echoing the third act of Alien, and renowned French filmmaker Claire Denis chooses to first expose you to an organic garden aboard the craft, dripping with life and potential sustenance. From there, we hear a baby’s coos ringing through the empty hallways, and only a distant voice over the radio — belonging to Monte in a lead role by Robert Pattinson — can hear the infant’s wails as he’s outside in a spacesuit repairing the hull, only one fatal mistake away from falling into oblivion and dooming not just his own life, but his daughter’s.

Damsel Movie Review: Zellner brothers’ latest is a darkly funny feminist western

Westerns are big right now, and for good reason. Classic examples of the genre tend to embody American ideals of strong, heroic men triumphing over nature, beating the bad guys, and getting the pretty, helpless girl. It presents quite an…

Interview: Benny and Josh Safdie for ‘Good Time’

They’re here for a good time, but also hopefully a long time: We talk with brothers Josh Safdie (co-writer/co-director) and Benny Safdie (co-director/actor) about their film Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson. We talk superheroes, street casting, Robert Pattinson, casting developmentally disabled actors…