Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) - Movie Review

I haven’t been fair to Guy Ritchie. Hell, if we’re being honest, I haven’t been that fair to his ex Madonna either, given how I blamed her for Ritchie’s downturn after Snatch; that shit isn’t cool. And neither is how I’ve been framing Guy Ritchie’s films for as long as I’ve been looking at them on here. Having grown up with Snatch, I had a concrete idea in my mind that that is what Guy Ritchie was good at, viewing pretty much everything else that came after it as him trying to diversify into new areas and stepping out of his reach. While I still stand by some of that criticism of him making films that don’t fit his strengths (e.g. the Aladdin remake), thinking that he absolutely must keep making snarky Brit-hard comedic crime dramas for the rest of his career just isn’t reasonable. And it’s only with his latest that I finally got around to understanding that about the guy.

Cobweb (2023) - Movie Review

Already on a renewed hot streak thanks to Joy Ride and Mutant Mayhem, Point Grey Pictures have decided to stretch out into new territory by backing a straight-up horror movie. As a fan of Rogen and Goldberg’s work behind the scenes, I’m certainly curious about what such a thing would look like, especially since comedians seem to do well when they embrace their scary side (just look at Jordan Peele). Sure, this is written by Chris Thomas Devlin, who shat out Texas Chainsaw Massacre last year, but hey, I'm open to the possibility of improvement.