La Soga Salvation Review: La Soga Sequel Is A Trite Taken Knockoff

La Soga Salvation In 2009 , the initialLa Sogawas coming off of theTakenhigh . direct by Josh Crooks ( Demon Hole),La Sogawas not consummate but it simply did not have the issue its subsequence has . La Soga Salvationis very merriment for the first thirty second and then loses itself , drags , and finally , one is go away with only a bad , direct to VOD natural process moving-picture show ....

January 31, 2022 · 4 min · 744 words · Donald Jacobs

Clean Review: Adrien Brody’s Broody Arthouse John Wick Misses The Mark

Clean There are a flock of Hollywood combining : writer - music director , actor - director , musician - actor , and so forth . The rare exception , however , is Adrien Brody ( The French Dispatch ) inClean . As the actor - composer - writer of the pic , he ’s doing the cheeseparing unsufferable by wearing three hat and have on them well . He and director - screenwriter Paul Solet ( Mars ) penned the handwriting together and they sure had the right idea withClean , albeit without the vision to elevate it to a truly watchable movie ....

January 30, 2022 · 5 min · 1020 words · Cindy Montgomery

Sirens Review: Poignant, Thoughtful Documentary About Lebanese Metal Band [Sundance]

Sirens Metal music may not be to everyone ’s liking , but hard worker to Sirens , an all - woman Lebanese metal dance orchestra might make one think differently about it . The band is so passionate about their music andSirens , the documentary direct by Rita Baghdadi , hones in on how they use it to show themselves in a politically and economically unstable land . Slave to Sirens is a five - member band , but the documentary focalise on its two founders , Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara ....

January 30, 2022 · 4 min · 801 words · Rebecca Clark

892 Review: John Boyega Gives Compelling Performance In Hostage Thriller [Sundance]

892 892 , Abi Damaris Corbin ’s directorial debut feature film , is layer with tensity and intent . Co - write by Corbin and Kwame Kwei - Armah , the thriller includes withering comment about the Department of Veterans Affairs , notorious for its negligence of U.S. service member . John Boyega throw a stunning , heartbreaking central performance and , while892doesn’t offer anything deeper beyond its conceit , Corbin is able to construct enough impulse to leave an wallop ....

January 29, 2022 · 6 min · 1073 words · David Prince

Memoria Review: Tilda Swinton Elevates This Elusive, Surreal Drama

Memoria Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is bonk for the dream - same , slow - burning tint that is wrap around his cinematic oeuvre , be itTropical MaladyorCemetery of Splendor . HisMemoriaembraces a similar glory , creating a window into a human beings that feel fugacious and timeless all at once while etching an audio - visual synaesthesia like no other . Steeped in soundscapes that soothe and unsettle , Memoriaunfurls like a fever dreaming about store , shift , and the mysteries of macrocosm ....

January 29, 2022 · 4 min · 733 words · Jessica Harris

Call Jane Review: Banks Is Great In Timely, But Anticlimactic Drama [Sundance]

Call Jane In a meter when abortion rights are still being fight for , Phyllis Nagy’sCall Janeseems incredibly apropos . Co - write by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi , and base broadly speaking around the Jane Collective , a meshing of woman who help others get safe miscarriage in the late 1960s and early 1970s , Call Jane’sheart is in the correct seat , even as it make some rather underwhelming narrative choices ....

January 28, 2022 · 5 min · 1064 words · Carl Porter

Emily The Criminal Review: Aubrey Plaza Does Stunning Work In Intense Thriller [Sundance]

Related Aubrey Plaza has become one of Hollywood ’s most dynamic actress , taking on roles that have offered something creatively satisfying and different in each one . InEmily the Criminal , Plaza gives all she ’s drive to roleplay a gritty , desperate quality with a reprehensible past tense . Elevated by an unbelievable , superimposed performance , author - director John Patton Ford ’s debut feature is a show - stopping , vivid thriller with astuteness ....

January 28, 2022 · 4 min · 840 words · Joanne Adams

Master Review: Mariama Diallo's Debut Feature Is A Striking Horror Film [Sundance]

Master author - director Mariama Diallo ’s debut feature film , Master , sets out to explore the institutional racism in Ivy League universities . Centered on three sinister women , a bookman , a dean , and a prof , the film explores the characters ’ experience navigating such a historical institution and how its unsavory history affects their lives and relationship kinetics . Diallo ’s book does n’t always work , specially asMastergears towards an ending that has a lot go on at once , but the everyday horror add to the layers of uneasiness that are make into every scene of the cinema ....

January 28, 2022 · 4 min · 845 words · Sheila Guzman

The Ice Age Adventures Of Buck Wild Review: Disney Bungles Another Fox Franchise

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wildis a spin - off of sorts , shifting the main narrative focalize forth from the darling found - category of the originalIce Agemovies , instead , making the prehistorical opossum twins Crash ( Vincent Tong ) and Eddie ( Aaron Harris ) the supporter . When their adoptive big sister Ellie ( Dominique Jennings ) suggests they block off doing fabulously heady activeness that could result in their kinsfolk ’s collective death , the possums rebel , running away to the hugger-mugger " lost world " where they reconnect with Buck Wild ( Simon Pegg ) ....

January 28, 2022 · 6 min · 1101 words · Andrea Smith

Dual Review: Karen Gillan Is A Double In Intriguing, Yet Flat Sci-Fi Drama [Sundance]

Dual In writer - managing director Riley Stearns ’ third feature , Dual , the future sees the cloning process as a regular part of high society , where one can have a doubled and develop them to act as they do . The motion-picture show acknowledges the messiness such a concept could create and , while the dark comedy in Stearns ’ bleak world can be rather great , Dualfails to to the full search its self-love ....

January 27, 2022 · 5 min · 956 words · Amanda Mclaughlin

Sundown Review: Tim Roth Shines In Beautifully Shot, But Meandering Drama

Sundown Writer - conductor Michel Franco’sSundownfollows a like trajectory to his previous motion-picture show , observing nonadaptive families and desegregate Mexico ’s socio - economic politics into the narrative . Sundownseems to indicate that the interview should plainly maintain over judgment , but as one just note Tim Roth ’s Neil , the film ’s main character , viewers are most certainly telephone to gauge Acapulco , Mexico . In the end , what could have ultimately been an interesting graphic symbol study surrounding Neil ’s behavior bring down with a clump in Franco ’s tardy ....

January 27, 2022 · 5 min · 1011 words · Keith Chavez

The Fallout Review: Jenna Ortega Stuns In Deftly Handled School Shooting Drama

The Fallout simple weeks after outlive multiple encounters with Ghostface inScream , Jenna Ortega stands as the survivor of another cataclysm - this time , a far too real one - in Megan Park ’s directorial debutThe Fallout . After bring home the bacon accolades at last yr ’s practical South by Southwest festival , The Falloutarrives on HBO Max today , where it will sure as shooting bump a all-encompassing hearing drawn in by Ortega ’s get up star power and the seasonable subject thing ....

January 27, 2022 · 6 min · 1093 words · Alyssa Sanders

The Office: Somehow We Manage Review

The Office Players can relive some of their favorite episode ofThe Officein a novel way withThe position : Somehow We care . This roving game was developed and published by East Side Games , and it ’s a great way for fans ofThe Officeto experience their favorite characters and moment in a Modern , interactional , animated experience . There ’s a large cast of characters to get jumper lead for and raise as they grind to make money and keep the Scranton arm thrive ....

January 27, 2022 · 3 min · 620 words · Patrick Richardson