‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ review: A funky, junky course correction

The best thing about Venom: Let There Be Carnage is that Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-meg-producer Kevin Feige never would’ve allowed it to happen. Feige, the sovereign of superhero sameness, has made a career out of reforming the type of movie that this latest…

Capone Review: An Extremely Flawed and Grotesque Gangster Biopic

About 20 minutes into Capone, the newest film from Chronicle and Fantastic Four director Josh Trank, we see an aging Alphonse Capone (Tom Hardy) sitting in a chair munching on an old cigar. The house that he occupies is lavish…

Movie Review: Sony’s Venom

Venom is kind of exhausting. You won’t require vast knowledge of Spider-Man or Venom symbiote lore upon entry, but instead the baffling filmmaking strategies of media entertainment “empire” that is Sony. Without reading into its missed connections to Spider-Man, or…

Movie Review: Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan’s name arouses a special kind of attention, not only among cinephiles but, crucially, for once-a-year film-goers as well, an audience majority whose decision to go see a film relies on a movie’s buzz and word of mouth. At this…

Taboo Season Finale Review

Taboo stepped out of character this week with an action-packed and nail-biting finale. Though the finale episode did end with a bang, the season ended pretty much how we thought it would, leaving us to question Taboo’s future. Episode 8…

TV Review: Taboo “Episode 6”

After an explosive episode last week, this week’s episode of Taboo seems much less volatile. Nonetheless, James’s Delaney’s engrossing tale continues to peak our interest and curiosity, with episode six revealing riveting details that leaves us with a fiery end.…

TV Review: Taboo Episode 5

If there’s one thing that Taboo taught us this week, it’s that when it comes to gunpowder, it is better to make it at a slow and steady pace than to rush the process and potentially blow everything up. That…