Donnie’s survived. He’s won. Who that makes him, and how he makes his peace with the terrified, abused kid who carries his friend’s bags but leaves him to take the fall, is the engine of the movie. Donnie’s not right. But he’s not wrong either, and the false binary of the fight brings that complexity to …
Cocaine Bear is an apex B-movie that does exactly what it says on the tin. If you read that title and a tiny little part of you didn’t go ‘FUCK YEAH!’ then this isn’t a movie you’ll like. If you heard that tiny little voice, there are so many characters dragged into the orbit of Oso …
Only Murders in the Building stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as Charles-Haden Savage, Oliver Putnam and Mabel Mora, residents of the Arconia building in New York. Charles is a ‘resting’ actor. Oliver is a ‘resting’ theatre director. Mabel is trying to work out what and who she is. It’s hilarious. It’s tragic. People die. There’s a fantastic dog, …
Cosmic horror works best at the small, personal scale. And you don’t get much smaller than four strangers, a family, a cabin, and the apocalypse Contents Knock at the CabinFar: Lone SailsInterstitials: Superbowl 2023 movie trailersPlayout: New Quest by Kaz Makes Noise Read More
Time travel stories are flux capacitor fix-it fic. For example, Quantum Leap (both versions) is dedicated to the idea of making individual lives better. The best Star Trek movie (OH LIKE YOU DISAGREE) is entirely about reversing a genocide humanity slept on. Even Skynet, bless its servers, used time travel to rewrite its own story, turning the Terminator saga into the second …
Stay and Wright’s script takes its pair of traumatised Londoners to the old country and refuses to let them or you take anything at face value. Booth’s Jamie is a charming until he isn’t PTSD sufferer who reads Krav Maga manuals and has a punching bag in the dining room. John-Kamen’s Maya is unflappable, determined, …
Panels like this remind me why I love comics: it’s a perfect balance of the different elements of the medium contributing to a vital whole. The stark colours, the contrast between Ruby’s delicate flamboyance and Mose’s stoical bulk. The rhythm and snap of the dialogue. The stricken look you don’t need to see on Mose’s …
Let’s start with the titular Wednesday. Jenna Ortega has been quietly and consistently turning in excellent performances for a while now, and her Wednesday isn’t so much still as permanently coiled, one part cat with its fur up and one part pig-tailed vengeance avatar. The temptation to let the wardrobe and expectations do the heavy lifting must have …
Welcome to the new year, folks! Welcome to The Full Lid, your weekly dose of pop culture positivity. This week that means bringing you up to speed on where we’ve been over the holidays, a Signal Boost section full of fantastic creatives and their work, a sampling of the work of the amazing Dan Schkade, and …