Movies

★★★★ The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is an action-comedy film directed by Tom Gormican (That Awkward Moment), from the mind of writer Kevin Etten. It stars Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Sharon Horgan, Paco Leon, Neil Patrick Harris, Lily Mo Sheen, Alessandra Mastronardi, and Ike Barinholtz. Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage, an actor...

★★★★½ Viking culture and Norse mythology have always been fascinating. The brutality and barbaric way of life, and the interesting gods they serve make for some epic storytelling. Director Robert Eggers, along with co-writer, Sjón, a renowned Icelandic author, exceed on every front, and make a truly memorable film. The Northman feels like the culmination...

★★½ Director David Yates is back with the third installment in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, The Secrets of Dumbledore. This time, Harry Potter veteran Steve Kloves joins J.K. Rowling for screenwriting duties. While there is an improvement over the last entry, even their experience still doesn’t manage to fully capture the magic of the beloved...

★★★ Ambulance is based on Lauritis Munch-Petersen’s 2005 Danish thriller, Ambulancen, and is written and directed by Michael Bay. The full story takes place in one day and, as typical of a Bay film, is jam-packed with overproduced, unapologetic action. It begins with Will Sharp and his sick wife who needs an astronomically priced surgery...

★★★½ Video game icon Sonic is back in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with the same director (Jeff Fowler) and writers (Pat Casey and Josh Miller), with the addition of John Whittington (The LEGO Batman Movie) to the scripting crew. This time around, the acting is solid, the script is cohesive, and the fun is taken...

★★★★ Everything Everywhere All at Once is a black comedy science fiction film directed by Dan Kwan (Swiss Army Man) and Daniel Scheinert (Swiss Army Man, The Death of Dick Long) and stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and James Hong. High strung Evelyn (Yeoh) and eternally optimistic Waymond (Quan)...

★★½ Morbius is a Sony Marvel film directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House), with a screenplay written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. It stars Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, and Adria Arjona. The movie opens in Costa Rica where brilliant hematologist and biochemist Michael Morbius (Leto) dazzles the audience, and seemingly scares the...

★★★½ The Outfit is a well-spun, one-room, mystery crime drama directed by Graham Moore, who also wrote the screenplay with Johnathan McClain. It stars Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Simon Russell Beale. Leonard Burling (Rylance) is a tailor—or rather, a “cutter”—who opens his shop in Chicago after fleeing London’s...

With the launch of Elden Ring‘s very first and only DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, it’s time to go back to theLands Between But if you’ve slammed your head versus several of the new areas’ hardest bosses too many times to count and require a little a break, why not look into a motion picture...

★★★ In Umma, from writer/director Iris K. Shim, Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her daughter Chrissy (Fivel Stewart) are beekeepers in rural America. They have a thriving business thanks to help from a small-town shopkeeper who sells their honey online, causing it to go viral. Amanda has no clue what that means because, plagued by her...