VOICE OF CARDS: THE ISLE DRAGON ROARS Review
Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars is a throwback JRPG that looks fantastic but plays a little too conservatively to warrant interest.
DUNE, Decadence, and Fatness
DUNE: PART ONE is a masterpiece of science fiction. It is also part of a longstanding demonization of fatness that came to a head for me in 2021.
The ScreenRex Podcast: THE FRENCH DISPATCH & LAST NIGHT IN SOHO reviewed
We review two films releasing this weekend: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and the new effort from Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho
Remake THE LOVE PARADE
The Love Parade, one of the earliest movie musicals, is streaming now on the Criterion Channel. Fun but flawed, this one is ripe for a remake.
Why I wish I hadn’t read DUNE before I watched it
A cautionary tale ahead of the highly anticipated film’s release
METROID DREAD: A Nintendo Switch Review
Samus Aran is back with a vengeance as the long-in-development METROID DREAD has finally come out. Can it live up to decades of expectation?
Don’t Judge THE LAST DUEL on its Looks
Let’s just state it plainly: The Last Duel looks awful. There’s the hair, to start with the superficial – Matt Damon sports a horrendous medieval mullet, while Ben Affleck’s tresses are bleached to oblivion and shaped into a childish bowl cut. It’s not the kind of thing you’d normally comment on, except these haircuts are so supremely and distractingly awful even the cast wondered if director Ridley Scott knew what he was doing with them.
LAMB is a fable that will haunt you
A half human, half lamb hybrid from A24? Sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but the reality is a little more complex than that.
The 15 Best Metroidvanias of All Time
The forefather of all metroidvanias is coming back this week in Metroid Dread. If you’re interested in learning more about the genre, start here.
NO TIME TO DIE aims high and falls just short
With his final 007 outing, Daniel Craig attempts to go out on a high note, and comes so tantalizingly close.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is in on the joke this time around
You can’t really talk about Venom: Let There Be Carnage without talking about what started it all: Venom. When Venom came out in 2018, I didn’t know what to make of it. It felt like it was a random, mad-libs-generated version of a film powered by a strange combination of earnestness and chaos.
How to review a movie like MALIGNANT?
Malignant is a classy, pricey take on the Troma-esque exploitation film. Unexpectedly, it absolutely delivers on that promise.
DOOM PATROL Season 3 continues its reign as the best superhero show
The most forward thinking show of the genre kicks it up a notch in its third season
WEREWOLVES WITHIN is a delight
Calling Werewolves Within the best video game movie ever made is damning it with faint praise. This is a genuinely charming character-driven horror-comedy with a phenomenal cast.
TIFF 2021: Terrorizers
This new Terrorizers has a large, but not overwhelming, ensemble cast, focusing on six teenagers in Taipei. It unfolds in chapters, each focusing on a specific character’s point of view, in turn recontextualizing our understanding of events. It’s a fascinating bit of audience immersion in that our expectations are consistently upended the further down the rabbit hole we go and the more characters we’re introduced to. In all, a riveting experience and the best film I’ve seen at TIFF so far.