Cocaine Bear (2023) - Movie Review

Elizabeth Banks’ last two directorial efforts (Pitch Perfect 2 and the latest Charlie’s Angels) were… alright. They had their strong feminist moments, and I’m thankful that the days of Movie 43 are far behind her at this point, but they weren’t necessarily the most memorable within their respective franchises. So when news hit that her next feature would be… well, a creature feature that looked destined to be a meme from the title alone, I wasn’t expecting much from it. But to be honest, this is the first time Banks has genuinely impressed me as a filmmaker, and the film itself is a whole lot of fun.

The Turning (2020) - Movie Review

A film’s ending has the power to make, or break, the entire preceding story. That feeling where I think I’ve got a handle on what a given film is aiming for, only for the production to pull the rug out from under my feet, is a jarring one and something that can mess with the process of writing a review afterwards because it requires a serious amount of re-adjustment; this is part of the reason why I never really got my head around Hereditary when it came time to formally review it. But then there’s films like this, where that jarring feeling doesn’t make me think I need to re-assess what I just watched; it only solidifies that the film itself sucks.