Posts Tagged ‘Idris Elba’
Film Review – A House of Dynamite
***Warning: This Review Contains Spoilers*** Kathryn Bigelow – the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker (2008) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) – has returned with another political thriller, A House of Dynamite (2025). Along with writer Noah Oppenheim, Bigelow imagines a scenario in which a nuclear missile has been launched at…
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Film Review – Fixed
I’ve always thought animation had more places to explore than just family-friendly adventures, but this isn’t quite what I had in mind. Fixed (2025) is a lewd, crude, and vulgar comedy that takes every possible gross joke about dogs and runs with it at full speed. Nothing is…
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Episode 116 – Three Thousand Years of Longing
For this week’s episode, we review George Miller‘s fantasy epic, Three Thousand Years of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. We also have a lengthy discussion about what properties since 2000 have garnered the most devoted fandoms. And for our streaming homework, we review…
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Episode 115 – Beast
For this podcast episode, we review the Idris Elba versus a rogue lion thriller, Beast. We also extensively discuss the best post-peak performances by actors working past their prime. For the streaming homework, we review the 1963 psychological thriller, Shock Corridor, written and directed by…
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Film Review – Beast
Idris Elba fighting a killer lion. That’s it. That’s all. Need I say more? Beast (2022) takes this simple premise and runs full speed with it. This is a B-level actioner that embraces its straightforward approach. Director Baltasar Kormákur (with writers Ryan Engle and Jamie Primak Sullivan) aims to make this nothing…
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Episode 79 – The Suicide Squad & The Green Knight
For this podcast episode, we return with reviews for James Gunn‘s violent superhero comedy, The Suicide Squad. We also review A24‘s dark fairy-tale adaptation, The Green Knight. We catch up with the movie news, and for our streaming homework, we discuss David Lynch‘s 1999 family…
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Film Review – The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad (2021) is an exuberant, violent, and hilariously goofy superhero romp. It acts as an excellent course correction from the abysmal Suicide Squad (2016) and demonstrates – once again – that Warner Brothers and DC are willing to give their filmmakers more wiggle room with these…
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Film Review – Concrete Cowboy
The setup is classic formula. A troubled youth, running out of options, is sent away to their long-lost parent in a last-ditch effort to set them straight. Through their interaction, the child and parent come of age, learning more about the world and about themselves.…
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