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Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot gets its third adaptation, with Gary Dauberman directing his second film and James Wan acting as a producer. Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) is a writer who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. He plans to use his time to research and write his next novel. However, his time back […]
Before I embarked on my television critic career, I was a lawyer. Which means I have a heck of a hard time watching legal shows without finding myself yelling at the screen as they butcher the practice of law in order to make it seem suspenseful or at all interesting (because, in reality, being a […]
Ethan Coen makes his first solo film with the lesbian-centric crime-comedy Drive-Away Dolls. Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) are lesbian friends in Philadelphia. When Marian plans to see her aunt in Tallahassee, Jamie convinces her friend to work for a drive-away service to get them to the Floridian capital. Due to a misunderstanding, […]
Sound of Freedom has become one of the most talked about films of 2023 and has been the centre of the culture war. The question is, is this attention justified? Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a Homeland Security Agent working in Calexico, California. When he arrests a paedophile, it leads the agent to stop a young […]
As I heard the rapturous reviews for Netflix’s new limited series The Queen’s Gambit (adapted from the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis) rolling out this past week, I’ll admit I wasn’t completely sold. A series about a female chess prodigy in the 1960s? Really? I mean, it’s chess. Not exactly a […]
What does it take for someone to become a villain? Does it take a lifetime of abuse or simply one bad day for them to snap? This is the question Todd Phillips attempts to answer in his foray into the superhero genre. Gotham is a crime-ridden, rat-infested hellhole. There’s a huge divide between the rich […]
Dick Cheney was one of the most controversial and hated politicians in American history and his career serves as the subject matter for Adam McKay’s follow-up to the well-received The Big Short. Vice follows Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) from his days as a Yale dropout and a drunk waster to becoming one of the most powerful men […]