The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
There’s a moment in Venom: Let There Be Carnage when Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) comes across a tree with a pair of initials carved into a heart. It’s a clue that Brock and Detective Mulligan (Stephen Graham) will use to track down escaped criminal Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson), but the romantic insignia is reflective of the sequel’s focus on love and duality.
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After more than a year of COVID delays, Daniel Craig’s final foray as James Bond arrives in theatres. But is No Time To Die worth the wait?
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There’s something incredibly satisfying about a horror comedy that knows it’s silly and leans into it.
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There’s Someone Inside Your House gets off to a great start: football jock Jackson Pace (Markian Tarasiuk) sets his alarm for a nap before a big game, awakens to an empty house filled with photos from a hazing ritual gone wrong and is brutally murdered by an assailant wearing a mask of his face. It’s creepy, there’s a smidge of humour and the violence is brutal. It’s only a few minutes into Netflix’s newest slasher and we’re off to a good start.
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Comparisons to filmmaker David Michôd’s Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom are inevitable when discussing Danish director Jeanette Nordahl’s debut feature. Both films feature a matriarch with a powerful, manipulative grip over her crime syndicate family and both films explore how the familial empire ultimately crumbles.
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Phase 4 of Disney and the MCU continues with Shang-Chi and The Legends of the Ten Rings.
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She’s All That is an iconic late 90s YA text. So what happens when you remake it for Netflix for contemporary audiences?
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It’s been nearly thirty years since Tony Todd first appeared as Candyman in an underground parking garage, seductively urging graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) to “be my victim.”
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There’s a pretty clever inversion at the heart of The Other Two’s second season. At the end of the first season, Chase Dubek (Case Walker), the show’s Justin Beiber stand-in who rose to superstardom as ChaseDreams, announced that he was quitting the music business just as mother Pat (Molly Shannon) landed an Ellen-style daytime talk show gig.
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