by Josh Terry | Mar 14, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Black Bag (3 ½ stars out of 4) When you break it down, Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag” becomes a bizarre recipe of pop culture elements: start with a “Mission: Impossible”-style save the world premise, but set it inside a British Intelligence internal subculture that...
by Josh Terry | Feb 14, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Captain America: Brave New World (2 stars out of 4) It’s a given with Marvel productions these days that if you want to understand the latest release, you need to be familiar with half a dozen previous offerings. Julius Onah’s “Captain America: Brave New World” stays...
by Josh Terry | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Wolf Man (2 stars out of 4) In January of 2013, once I became a weekly film critic, I started to notice the patterns inherent to my new job. For example, one of the first movies I covered that year was a horror film called, “Mama.” I remember very little about the...
by Josh Terry | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
September 5 (3 1/2 stars out of 4) Earlier this year, “Civil War” used a group of photojournalists to explore a nightmare future where ideological tensions boiled over into organized warfare on a national scale. In “September 5,” director Tim Fehlbaum uses a group of...
by Josh Terry | Dec 13, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
War of the Rohirrim (2 stars out of 4) The best thing about “War of the Rohirrim” is that it will send you out of the theater with Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings” themes echoing in your memory. Specifically, “Rohirrim” uses cues from 2002’s “The Two Towers,”...
