Blood Simple, the debut movie by The Coen Brothers, isn't a movie that excels in any particular aspect or overall as a movie experience, but it's an intriguing watch as it sets the blueprint for their unique visual and storytelling craft they would create from this point on.

Focusing on a very small main cast, it's basically set up as a game of Broken Telephone where characters come to their own erroneous conclusions based on anecdotal evidence which exponentially complicate…

If one was to sum Mank in a single sentence, one would say: "By honoring his late father's script, David Fincher has crafted an elegant and immaculate love letter to both the pretty and the ugly side of the Hollywood of old". The problem is that not everyone will agree with a statement like that and it's quite easy to see why. Mank's only downfall is that it's very hermetic and hard to connect for people who don't have the…

Even before the movie started, there was one name in the credits that made me stop for a quick second. Anyone who is even remotely interested in the history of European and Hollywood film has stumbled upon the name of Dino De Laurentiis at least once. Not only does he has a very memorable name, but he's also one of the most famous (and prolific) producers on both sides of the Atlantic. His earliest production credits include some of the…

Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz are no Jordan Peele and M. Night Shyamalan (for whatever that's worth), although they tried their hardest with Antebellum, a terrible mashup of Get Out's and The Village's big twists. To top it all off, there's an attempt at an awkward social commentary spin on racism that doesn't really go anywhere or drive a certain point home. Racism is alive today? In 2020 we are all painfully aware of that fact. And for those who…