Short of Style, Starved of Substance in The Uprising – A Review
This review contains minor spoilers. Watching The Uprising, I kept having to ask whether the things making me angry had actually happened. Paul Greengrass’s film spends a long time struggling to make its rebellion compelling, then reaches for events the historical record does not support. Andrew Garfield...
We Bought What They Were Selling, A Defence of Digger – A Review
This review contains no spoilers for Digger (2026). The more volatile the response to Digger became, the more I needed to see it. By opening night, critics and early audiences were calling Iñárritu’s film everything from a masterpiece to an insufferable disaster to the death knell of...
How the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger will affect upcoming Tolkien films
Last week it was announced that all legal obstacles to the merger of Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. have been cleared, and the merger is set to close today, October 6. David Ellison, son of Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, will be the...
Primetime Doesn’t Hold Back—For Better or Worse – A Review
Primetime is a sleek, uber-entertaining character study about someone who probably shouldn’t have been subjected to such a harsh critique. That’s how I would describe the new, controversial A24 film, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen and directed by Lance Oppenheim in his first venture...
