The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
Comparisons to filmmaker David Michôd’s Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom are inevitable when discussing Danish director Jeanette Nordahl’s debut feature. Both films feature a matriarch with a powerful, manipulative grip over her crime syndicate family and both films explore how the familial empire ultimately crumbles.
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Phase 4 of Disney and the MCU continues with Shang-Chi and The Legends of the Ten Rings.
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She’s All That is an iconic late 90s YA text. So what happens when you remake it for Netflix for contemporary audiences?
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It’s been nearly thirty years since Tony Todd first appeared as Candyman in an underground parking garage, seductively urging graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) to “be my victim.”
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There’s a pretty clever inversion at the heart of The Other Two’s second season. At the end of the first season, Chase Dubek (Case Walker), the show’s Justin Beiber stand-in who rose to superstardom as ChaseDreams, announced that he was quitting the music business just as mother Pat (Molly Shannon) landed an Ellen-style daytime talk show gig.
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I’ve always been fond of women in peril films, particularly when they put a unique spin on the subgenre.
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