To say that Brie Larson is having a good year would be a bit of an understatement. The Oscar-winning actress smashed through the patriarchy and box office records with Captain Marvel, and less than two months later is set to reprise the role of Carol Danvers in Avengers: Endgame, a little film that’s all but guaranteed…
Author: Nicolás Delgadillo
I like to write about movies and television because it involves sitting down.
“The Best of Enemies” is This Year’s Green Book, and That’s Not Good
Will we never learn? With the wound of the offensive and irresponsible Academy Award winning Green Book still open and bleeding, Hollywood has, after only a little more than a month later, bestowed upon us yet another plain, sanitized look at racial tensions in the South during the 60s and 70s. The Best of Enemies isn’t quite…
“Us” is Unsettling, Bloody, and One Hell of a Thought-Provoking Ride
If, for whatever reason, you were still having doubts that Jordan Peele, half the mind behind Key and Peele, which filled the void left from Chappelle’s Show, and the entire mind behind 2017’s monster hit Get Out, as well as the upcoming Twilight Zone reboot, consider them extinguished with the release of Us. Peele has…
The Lobster – Love by Regulation
I really reject the repeated notion that “Hollywood is out of ideas”. You hear that over and over again, and it’s simply not true. There are endless original movies being made every day by an endless amount of filmmakers both new and old, but most people just don’t go see them. It’s something I quickly…
Climax – Dancing and Descending Into Madness
I have never seen anything quite like Climax, the hallucinatory, drug-and-sex-fueled hour and a half of chaos helmed by Argentine-French writer and director Gaspar Noé. At moments it is beautiful, at others it’s manic and depraved, and at others it’s transcendent of its own art form. It’s horrifying, hypnotic, seductive, and impossible to look away…
Swiss Army Man – The Weird, Artsy Farting Corpse Movie
I don’t really know what to make of Swiss Army Man. It’s impossible to pin down exactly what it is – it’s doesn’t fit into the confines of any one genre (I guess comedy / adventure would be the closest), it’s incredibly strange and is proud to be so, its humor goes back and forth…
“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” Emphasizes Education and Cooperation to Tell an Inspiring True Story
Chiwetel Ejiofor has proven himself to be a force to be reckoned with onscreen. With notable roles in films such as 12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange, The Martian, Children of Men, and more, the actor has shown a wide range of emotion and versatility. In Netflix’s latest film, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,…
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished in “Greta”
Greta is a stalker film, but one that is so deeply unsettling at times that it continuously walks the line between being a psychological thriller and a straight up horror film. The relationship, rather than being about a spurned lover or an obsessive weirdo, is a little bit different. It’s between a young woman and…
The Prodigy – Creepy Kids Are Back in Style
The Prodigy is the first true horror release of 2019 (Escape Room was more of a thriller than straight horror), and fans of the genre will be pleased to know that it delivers some solid scares. There have been plenty of movies about creepy children, the one that’s always first to come to mind is The Omen,…
“Miss Bala” Misses Almost All of Its Shots
It’ll be nice when the day finally comes where Latinx stories told on the big screen can be more than drug and gang wars going down at the border, but it is not this day. Last year’s Roma showed us just how personal and relatable stories set in Mexico and about Mexican people can be, but…
