From the guys who made the incredibly intense Talk to Me comes Bring Her Back, an equally grisly but less impactful horror-thriller about orphaned teenagers who are sent to live with a seemingly friendly but utterly psychotic Sally Hawkins, who I am pretty sure is playing herself. Hawkins plays Laura, a traumatized mother whose only … Read more
In East Germany, where director Andreas Dresen grew up, Hilde and Hans Coppi were talked about with the kind of reverence normally reserved for saints. Members of a Communist German resistance group known as the Red Orchestra, which was working to aid the Soviet Union against the Nazis, Hilde and Hans were regarded more as symbols … Read more
When Elizabeth Bennet first gets a glimpse of Pemberley, Mr Darcy’s enormous estate, she experiences a fleeting pang of “something like regret” over the marriage proposal she rejected and the loss of the home that would have been hers. In her follow up to Past Lives. Celine Song doesn’t update Jane Austen à la Clueless, but she is concerned with … Read more
In Weapons, some children gleefully disappear into the darkness, their teacher is blamed and becomes an alcoholic, and bad things are a’brewing–a satisfying mix for one of the most entertaining movies of the year. Writer/director Zach Cregger, who made the divisive horror film Barbarian, is back with this oddly titled horror-thriller that defies convention as … Read more
Like the doddering sexagenarian at the centre of its plot, Chicken Town lumbers along, frequently mis-stepping and fluffing its lines. It’s a dull, eye-roll-inducing half-way house of a film, neither a biting, black comedy nor an uplifting, whimsical jaunt. British comedy royalty Graham Fellows stars as Kev, who teams up with teenagers, Paula (Amelie Davies) and Jayce (Ethaniel Davy) … Read more
My Chemical Romance brought their Long Live the Black Parade tour to Arlington, Texas’ Globe Life Field on Saturday, turning up the heat on an already-sweltering night with their theatrical emo extravaganza. You can see Loudwire’s exclusive photos from the show and the full setlist below. The New Jersey rockers opened the show by plowing … Read more
Nonstop action and entertainment wasn’t enough to win over my six-year-old, apparently, with The Bad Guys 2 delivering another amusing-but-not-quite-fiendish romp full of crime and talking animals—all of which my kid described as “sort of boring.” In fairness, she had stayed up way too late the night before watching The Goonies. Had she been running … Read more
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a shiny, well-made step in the right direction for Marvel that unfortunately is slow, boring, and shockingly light on action. This new Fantastic Four, which is by far, and by default, the best FF movie ever made, is a paradox of cosmic proportions. On the one hand, director Matt … Read more
((Newsnation-Apply a designer to help women discover the “Red Flag Men” and to arrest viral shirts. Tea, which distinguishes itself as a safety application dating back to women, rose to the top of Apple’s US App Store. It allows women to publish unknown pictures of men who dates back – or consider dating – to … Read more
In Ballerina, Ana de Armis proves that absent a simple but powerful backstory—a dead dog—the John Wick universe isn’t nearly as compelling or as exciting to watch. Despite solid action and a prettier-to-look-at protagonist, Ballerina (sorry, officially From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, god bless the marketing team) is a fairly generic and somewhat … Read more