Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Mackie’
Film Review – The Electric State
Anthony and Joe Russo’s directorial output post Avengers: Endgame (2019) have been, well, uneven to say the least. Sadly, that trend continues with The Electric State (2025). This is a big sci-fi adventure loaded with special effects, well-known stars, and plenty of splashy set pieces. And yet, it lacks thrills, excitement,…
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Film Review – Captain America: Brave New World
***Warning: This Review Contains Mild Spoilers*** Here now is an example of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s worst tendencies. Captain America: Brave New World (2025) is a film so blatantly dependent on previous entries that it lacks its own identity. Granted, the very essence of “The…
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SXSW Review – If You Were the Last
Sometimes a SXSW screening is chosen just because you love the actors involved, regardless of everything else. The choices do not always work out, and you see a not-so-great film. In the case of If You Were the Last (2023), the opposite happens, and it…
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Film Review – Miss Bala
Miss Bala (2019) does something that few films manage to accomplish: set out with a specific goal in mind and end up doing the exact opposite. My assumption is that director Catherine Hardwicke and writer Garth Dunnet-Alcocer – remaking the Spanish language film of the…
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Film Review – The Hate U Give
Charlottesville, Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Freddie Grey; the headlines are filled with it. And those are just some of the most famous names. There is a staggeringly sad litany of incidents of unarmed black people being killed by police. Let’s face it,…
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Film Review – Detroit
The tragedy of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit (2017) is that – despite the fact that the events it depicts took place fifty years ago – the country still sees similar occurrences happen this very day. Racism is an ugly stain on the legacy of America, a…
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Film Review – Captain America: Civil War
It is hard to review a film like Captain America: Civil War, since it might be arguably the most critic-proof movie of the year. Critics are already heaping praise on it, and I’m not going waste your time posturing like I disagree. It is an incredibly…
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Film Review – Triple 9
Crime drama is one of my favorite genres. It distills morality into its basic elements, and then tosses it into the air. What dynamic better demonstrates the complexities of good vs. evil than cops and robbers? No matter how often we see it, there’s something…
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