SUPERGIRL
By Marc S. Sanders I don’t understand it. A billion-dollar movie studio like Warner Brothers, with DC Studios, has all of the resources imaginable and nearly ninety years of source material to draw from and they opt for absolute dreck populated with three literal vomit scenes. In the first twenty seconds of the movie, the hero’s dog…
OBSESSION
By Marc S. Sanders Curry Barker is a director that I intend to enthusiastically follow just as I did when Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan were building their astonishing careers. Those guys reshaped the conventions of filmmaking. Curry Barker has done the same by simplifying the horror genre, hiding his subjects in eerie darkness, holding his…
DISCLOSURE DAY
By Marc S. Sanders A day before I saw Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi project, Disclosure Day, I witnessed the aftermath celebration of the New York Knicks’ NBA championship win. People of New York City took to the streets to celebrate. By and large it appeared jubilant, loud and celebratory. However, to no surprise, there was a faction of miscreants…
FIVE EASY PIECES
By Marc S. Sanders Some films simply focus on the internal struggle of a character. There might side component figures, but those are not fully formed because they exist to shape the main character we are directed to observe. In Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese scrounge up several people from a seedy New York City underbelly…
SEND HELP
By Marc S. Sanders The best way to get back at your boss? I guess you could hope for the slim possibility of surviving a plane crash with him. Then he has no choice but to surrender to your survival instincts on a desert island off the coast of Thailand. That might deliver a more effective act…
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)
By Marc S. Sanders You should never expect much from a movie about a hero who calls himself He-Man and allies with guys known as Ram Man and Fisto. If you are demanding too much, it’s not the movie. It’s you. Based on the famous Mattel toy line and after school cartoon of the 1980s,…
ENEMY (2013)
by Miguel E. Rodriguez DIRECTOR: Denis VilleneuveCAST: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella RosselliniMY RATING: 8/10ROTTEN TOMATOMETER: 72% PLOT: A humdrum history professor seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie. Enemy is like a Twilight Zone episode written by David Lynch, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The best thing about it:…
BACKROOMS
By Marc S. Sanders I just learned that a twenty-year-old kid named Kane Parsons was approached by studio A24 to turn his online experimental videos of quiet, empty stillness into a cinematic feature of bottomless madness. The movie is Backrooms, the sleeper hit of 2026, and it is reminiscent of the unexpected impact The Blair Witch Project had back…
TO DIE FOR
By Marc S. Sanders Gus Van Sant’s To Die For has to be one of the most wickedly delicious satires of the last thirty years. Buck Henry adapts Joyce Maynard’s novel that takes a bite out of the juicy apple that savors fame and popularity. Nicole Kidman delivers my favorite performance of her extensive career…
MOONLIGHT
By Marc S. Sanders Within one of the most crime ridden and destitute neighborhoods of Miami, Florida a black youth named Chiron does his best to survive bullies while evading the drug fueled temper of his mother, Paula. Barry Jenkins shot his Best Picture Oscar winner in twenty-five days. The film’s pace is sluggish, but the sum…
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