Ben Glasthal Archives -

NOSFERATU MOVIE REVIEW Nothing says “Merry Christmas” quite like a prestige horror film. Robert Eggers is back and has delivered his 4th feature film with his version of the classic, Nosferatu . Bill Skarsgård stars as the titular vampire whose shadow looms over the picture like a cold blanket while Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen […]

GLADIATOR II MOVIE REVIEW After 24 years, Ridley Scott decided to dust off the old Gladiator garb and make a sequel to his 2000 epic that won the gold at the Oscars. Does Gladiator II have the same chances at becoming the best film of the year? Highly unlikely. Paul Mescal takes on the titular […]

RED ONE MOVIE REVIEW The influx of Xmas movies has begun. With a big cast and with director Jake Kasdan (The Jumanji movies) at the helm, Red One inserts a Marvel movie feel to the proceedings. Dwayne Johnson is Callum Drift, a top agent at E.L.F. who protects Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) and other mythological […]

Smile 2 Movie Review The saying “a smile is worth a thousand words” doesn’t even begin to describe the horror in Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 hit Smile. Smile 2 takes place 6 days after where the last film left us and we’re following the lone survivor of the Smile entity, Joel (Kyle Gallner). […]

TWISTERS MOVIE REVIEW In this age of rapidly changing weather, as disasters begin to significantly increase, it’s par for the course for Hollywood to parallel it with action films. So let’s resurrect a film from 1996, beloved by some, make it plural, and largely have no other connection to the original. It’s Twisters and now […]

KINDS OF KINDNESS MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Yorgos Lanthimos definitely veered away from his usual fare with his recent and multi-award winning films The Favorite and Poor Things. But his latest, a triptych anthology Kinds of Kindness, returns to the dark absurdism of films like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. His cast […]

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA MOVIE REVIEW I don’t think anyone could have even begun to imagine back in 1979 when the original Mad Max was released that this series would go on for decades (albeit with only five movies thus far) and become what it is now: arguably THE event movie of the year. […]

I SAW THE TV GLOW MOVIE REVIEW The director of experimental art-horror hit from last year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun, returns with their latest experimental art-scifi hit, I Saw the TV Glow. The film follows Owen, who first we meet in 7th grade (briefly played by Ian Foreman). He is […]

THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW If anyone is going to make a World War 2 movie look cheeky and fun then Guy Ritchie is your bloke. Ritchie returns to the big screen after last year’s somber The Covenant with The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Based on a true story, the film follows a […]

ARGYLLE MOVIE REVIEW From director Matthew Vaughn (The Kingsmen movies) and writer Jason Fuchs (Pan, Wonder Woman) and based on a book that probably doesn’t exist by a fictional person who has the name of the lead character of the film and is assuredly not secretly Taylor Swift, the spy spoof Argylle is here. Elly […]

THE BOY AND THE HERON MOVIE REVIEW In what seems likely to be master animator and storyteller Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (the man is 82), The Boy and the Heron returns to dark and surreal fantasy and I suspect long-time fans will be beside themselves happy about it. The story follows Mahito, a 12 year […]

DICKS: THE MUSICAL MOVIE REVIEW Director Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno) likes to handle outrageous comedy material that borders on offensive. Adapting this off-broadway musical into a film was a step too far for some of our reviewers. The musical story involves two twin brothers, played by the show’s creators Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, who […]

KING ON SCREEN MOVIE REVIEW When Stephen King released Carrie, his first novel, in 1974, the horror story initially received mixed reviews from critics. The novel’s unique blend of horror, psychological suspense, and coming-of-age themes garnered attention, but opinions were divided. Some critics praised King’s ability to capture the adolescent experience, create a sense of […]

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY MOVIE REVIEW One last time to strap on the whip and put on the hat…here we go. Certainly the last Indiana Jones outing did not exactly meet with the world’s universal pleasure and Harrison Ford has been pushing ever since to get one more go-round. It’s still a […]

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE MOVIE REVIEW I’m going to start by telling you something that the studios really dropped the ball on making extremely clear about Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: it’s part one of two and ends on a huge cliffhanger. Now you can just enjoy this sequel to Into The Spider-Verse as it deserves […]

FAST X MOVIE REVIEW The crew revs up their reviewing engines to take on the tenth (well, eleventh if you count Hobbs & Shaw) installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise. This one is splitting the tenth film into three installments so get ready for cliffhangers. But it’s still well over two hours of […]

AIR MOVIE REVIEW While our whole crew came together in celebrating how fun Ben Affleck’s latest directing effort Air is as a movie, we fought pretty hard on whether or not it was a bit ‘ethically queasy’. You’ll have to listen to the review to get more on Alan, Chris, Ben, and Frank arguing over […]

FURIES MOVIE REVIEW In Greek mythology, the Furies were a trio of very powerful and angry goddesses who punished men who did bad things, particularly to women. They were a force of justice, but also a force to be reckoned with. So, it is a well chosen title for the newest Netflix female driven revenge […]

JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4 MOVIE REVIEW Well, Mr. Wick has himself in a helluva pickle. The high table of assassins has a huge bounty on him, spearheaded by the Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård) who has been given carte blanche to take down Wick however possible. Pretty much every assassin in the world (which, […]

WE HAVE A GHOST MOVIE REVIEW Due to Frank Presley (Anthony Mackie) constantly trying and failing at get rich quick schemes, the Presleys find themselves moving into a cheap, old ass, house in the Chicago ‘burbs. One thing they didn’t count on was “Ernest,” the ghost that lives in the attic (David Harbour). Frank’s younger […]

80 FOR BRADY MOVIE REVIEW Ah, 2017. Such a different time. A world before an ongoing pandemic, a world of Spider-man Homecoming and Beyonce pregnant with twins. A time when four elderly best friends and massive fans of the New England Patriots, particularly the team’s star quarterback Tom Brady, decided to celebrate the Patriots’ victory […]

M3GAN MOVIE REVIEW Blumhouse Productions can certainly smell a new franchise from some distance, even when that distance is a rejected Chucky script that gets retooled into a new monster. Said monster is the titular M3gan, a robotic life-size child doll that uses advanced AI programming designed by Gemma (Allison Williams) to learn and interact […]

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO MOVIE REVIEW Guillermo is having a good year and clearly a productive relationship right out of the starting gate with Netflix. First we get his superlative Cabinet of Curiosities, and now this (some would say) shoo-in for Best Animated Feature. This stop-motion animated musical fantasy takes a grimmer look than Disney […]

DISENCHANTED MOVIE REVIEW And they all lived happily ever after. Cue the music and roll the credits right? Oh ho ho I don’t think so!  What happens after your true love’s kiss and the wedding cake is cut? For Giselle and Robert it’s a big move to a luxurious private estate, an addition to their […]

SLUMBERLAND MOVIE REVIEW Little Nemo in Slumberland is the groundbreaking comic strip from innovative cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. Ever since it first appeared in 1905, the strip has been adapted multiple times for stage and screen, with varying results. Slumberland has the budget and digital tools to bring McCay’s eye-popping world to life in a way […]