by Cooper Hatsis | Mar 3, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
With the recent release of Osgood Perkins’s horror-comedy The Monkey, another Stephen King story has now been adapted into a film. The Monkey is inspired by a short story of the same title from a short collection called Skeleton Crew. While The Monkey might not...
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,”...
by Josh Terry | Dec 13, 2024 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
A Complete Unknown (3 ½ stars out of 4) A few years back I used to use Bob Dylan in my composition classes to illustrate the difference between text and context. First I’d play the studio version of, “Like A Rolling Stone,” and have my students analyze the lyrics and...
