Film Reviews
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
As long as we exist, humankind will perpetually begin again amidst the rubble of what came before. In bleakest reality, this is proven in the aftermath of war or natural disasters. Metaphorically, it is also…
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BOTTOMS
Imagine a pair of lusty lesbians who dream of getting girls and being ‘qweens’ at their high school. Now imagine it takes place in a world similar to HEATHERS.
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Blue Beetle
The Blue Beetle is a long-standing superhero that most have no clue who they are. Can people actually care about a brand-new to them superhero in 2023 during the supposed waning desire for superhero entertainment?…
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Strays
I really don’t know why we, as audiences, like movies about pets going on adventures, but they seem to be made constantly. I guess there’s something about seeing animals have an interiority of their own…
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The Monkey King (2023)
Journey to the West might be one of the most influential stories in the world. The story of a Buddhist monk traveling westward to central Asia and India greatly impacts the Eastern world. At least…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter
I think ever since Bram Stoker’s book Dracula was released, it has had a hold on our imaginations. We’ve seen so many interpretations and retelling stories using this character and also that of the vampire.…
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Heart of Stone
Heart of Stone is another one of Netflix’s attempts at making a big-budget action movie that you watch at home instead of the movie theater. Even though you can watch it in a theater for…
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Red, White & Royal Blue (the movie)
Casey McQuiston’s book is a big swoony romance. And we crave that here on RIOT-US. We had to review Red, White & Royal Blue
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
So it’s summer 2023, and we have a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Now for some, it’s been a while. They probably checked out of Ninja Turtles in the mid-90s. They old. For some,…
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Haunted Mansion (2023)
As much as Disney gets flack and, at times, huge financial success from constantly remaking their classic animated features into live-action, they have another track they’ve been running over the past few decades. That track…
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Susie Searches
Susie is the classic nerdy girl, whose only friend is her mother. The pair read mysteries together and Susie always knows whodunit. She takes that skill into a true crime podcast. But no one is…
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Theater Camp
I didn’t know what I was getting into with Theater Camp. From the trailer, it looked like a nice little comedy with misfits mentoring a bunch of theater kids. While essentially, I got that I…
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BARBIE
It’s a big week for movies with competing releases of Oppenheimer, a film that is a huge event biopic about the man who led the Manhattan Project and created the Atomic Bomb against what on…
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They Cloned Tyrone
Right now, we are in a surprising place of a lot of Black surrealism in our media. And a lot might not be the best description for some, but we went from nothing to a…
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Earth Mama
Earth Mama is a sobering film and a piece of filmmaking that, as a male, didn’t make me feel uncomfortable but empathetic. I feel more aware of the different experiences and struggles women face. Savanah…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 has Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and our team dealing with the most significant threat they have ever faced. Ethan is now with just his stalwart teammates here – Luther…
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Right now, I think Dreamworks Animation. I feel that they are the underdog in this current animation world right now. While Illumination has been packing houses, Sony Animation has been shattering expectations, and Disney/Pixar is…
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Asteroid City
Curated artifice. That’s what I think about when I picture Wes Anderson. He uses nostalgia for mid-American century aesthetics, one of a world that the United States told itself and portrayed in its media of…
