2 Best Movies To Watch After District 13: Ultimatum (2009)
MacGruber
In the age of streaming, any movie, short of maybe Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, can become a TV show. It doesn’t matter if your original film was a box office turkey, these channels just want “content” and any previously established brand name will do. Through this phenomenon comes MacGruber, a continuation of a Saturday Night Live character and the star of a 2010 movie that crashed and burned financially. But when Peacock desperately needed something, anything, to release over the holidays, MacGruber rose from the aches like a conceited phoenix. Continue Reading →
No Running
Delmar Washington's well-intentioned sci-fi parable about racial profiling gets tripped up in the constraints of its budget. This review is part of our coverage of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Ever since Get Out popularized the notion of exploring the struggles and tensions of Blackness in America through a genre lens, it's been difficult to extricate its influence from many of its successors. This brings us to No Running, the feature film debut of Delmar Washington, which strains against what's most assuredly a modest budget to explore a mild sci-fi spin on the phenomenon of racial profiling. Continue Reading →