My relationship to Resident Evil is purely cinematic. I am not a player of the iconic video game series that has been scaring its players since 1996, and all I know of the franchise is everything that has been in the Milla Jovovich-led action-horror films that kicked off in 2002. All I really remember from those films, besides Jovovich kicking ass, is that there is a chemical outbreak in the fictional city of Raccoon…

  Don’t let the Cannes Film Festival logo fool you into thinking what kind of film Na Hong-jin’s Hope is. This is closer to an American action spectacle than a Palme d’Or nominee. Hope is a non-stop, action-packed blockbuster about monsters terrorizing a small town and the underqualified police and townspeople trying to stop it. Sounds like something right out of a Michael Bay movie. In the remote town of Hope Harbor, strange happenings begin;…

  The fact that Coyote vs Acme exists and that I am reviewing the film is a cinematic miracle. Originally slated to be released in July of 2023, Warner Bros, the original studio releasing the film, decided to shelve the completed film entirely for a tax write-off. Seemingly gone from existence, Ketchup Entertainment bought the distribution rights in March of 2025 and has now officially released the film in theaters. I don’t normally go into…

  Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars doesn’t feel like a complete movie. Yes, it has actors, production value, and visual effects, and there was a script for the film, but there is no connective story or depth. It just felt like a lot of scenes placed together in an order that is digestible for an audience. It deals with a lot of heavy subjects and has characters who could have been interesting, but it’s like…

    Ice Cream Man was self-financed by the film’s director, Eli Roth. Following his last film, Borderlands, a certified flop in every regard, Roth wanted to do away with the studio system and executive oversight and make a film without anyone giving him any notes. He also chose to release Ice Cream Man unrated, giving himself free rein over the blood, gore, and chaos of his newest splatter-horror film. While Roth isn’t the first…

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the 38th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a spectacular movie and one of the best post-Avengers: Endgame MCU movies. It perfectly balances spectacle and character, resulting in a film that is exciting and emotional. It is the best Tom Holland-led Spider-Man movie, and the best live-action Spider-Man movie since the Sam Raimi films of the 2000s. Spider-Man: Brand New Day picks up after the events of Spider-Man:…

Christopher Nolan has crafted the definitive cinematic version of Homer’s The Odyssey. While the competition isn’t exactly tough – besides the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?, other adaptations of The Odyssey have largely been television miniseries – I don’t think there is a filmmaker today, or maybe ever, who could have brought the scale and scope of The Odyssey to the big screen other than Nolan. He understands the grand nature of Homer’s…