It’s never been especially easy to market a Milla Jovovich action vehicle that doesn’t carry the familiar branding of the Resident Evil series. That franchise turned Jovovich into one of modern genre cinema’s most reliable physical performers, but outside of it, audiences have grown oddly hesitant to follow her into new territory. In the past … Read more
In the Blink of an Eye is rated PG-13 for sexual content, thematic material, and some bloody images. In the Blink of an Eye, humanity caught mid-stride, stretched across millennia, trying to survive, connect, and move forward. That sense of cosmic continuity is exactly the sort of thing Andrew Stanton has always been drawn to, … Read more
As horror continues its impressive run through the 2020s, A24 is readying the release of a genuinely unnerving standout in Ian Tuason’s superb undertone. The film circles familiar modern-horror territory, grief, and spiritual doubt, but folds those ideas into a deeply immersive audiovisual assault that immediately marks Tuason as a filmmaker to watch. Too many … Read more
Rating: Send Help is rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for strong/bloody violence and language. Sam Raimi is back, and he’s as delightfully vicious as ever. Send Help marks his first feature in four years, and it arrives bearing all the messy, over-the-top gore we’ve come to expect from the horror veteran. But … Read more
Cody sits in a court-mandated drug program meeting at the start of “Union County,” physically present but emotionally adrift, as if he’s still deciding whether recovery is something he truly wants. The room is quiet, the camera refuses to blink, and then the calm is shattered by the arrival of his foster brother Jack, who … Read more
Screenwriter Patrick Whistler steers “In Cold Light, the film is an intimate portrait of a woman trying to claw her way back to some version of a life after prison while surrounded by fractured family ties, unresolved trauma, and the suffocating weight of her own history. It technically qualifies as a crime drama, but Whistler … Read more
At the start of Mercy, with Chris Pratt flailing his way through a near-future nightmare, it briefly looks as though director Timur Bekmambetov might be gearing up to make some pointed if fairly obvious observations about mass surveillance, government overreach, and the ever-expanding reach of artificial intelligence. Instead, by the time the film stumbles to … Read more