Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Sacrifice and the Ending of Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Why Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 remains one of the best superhero movies of all time.

Review: Down the Road Again (2011)

Donald Shebib’s late sequel to Goin’ Down the Road is sentimental in all the ways the original film is not.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromAugust 27, 2026Goin' Down the Road, Down the Road Again, Donald Shebib, Doug McGrath, Kathleen Robertson, Anthony Lemke, Jayne Eastwood, Cayle Chernin, Tedde MooreComment

Review: The End of Oak Street (2026)

David Robert Mitchell’s creature feature is a throwback to PG-13 1980s fare like Gremlins.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 20, 2026The End of Oak Street, David Robert Mitchell, Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian ConveryComment

Review: The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner is an intelligent mashup of the period drama and the whodunnit.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 18, 2026The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Honobu Yonezawa, Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka AokiComment

How Spider-Man: Brand New Day's (2026) Gen-Z Peter Parker Explains the Film's Popularity

The new Spider-Man movie succeeds off how its portrait of Spider-Man shares the anxieties of its audience.

Review: Young Mothers (2025)

The latest from the Dardenne Brothers is another quietly devastating work of social realism.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 7, 2026Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Dardenne Brothers, Lucie Laurelle, Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaina Halloy Fokan, Samia Hilmi, Jef Jacobs, Gunter Duret, Christelle Cornil, India HairComment

Review: Citizen Vigilante (2026)

The most controversial movie of the year is stranger—and more interesting—than you might think.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJuly 31, 2026Citizen Vigilante, Uwe Boll, Armie Hammer, Costas Mandylor, vigilantism, outlaw, migrant crime, crime, Europe, Euro-thriller, dangerous texts, Dirty Harry, controversialComment

Review: The Drama (2026)

Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is an amusing if slight provocation.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 30, 2026The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Hailey Benton Gates, Sydney Lemmon, Hannah GrossComment

The Guilt of War Fuels Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026)

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic acts as a anti-war companion piece to Oppenheimer.

Review: Violent Saturday (1955)

Richard Fleischer’s 1955 crime picture demonstrates how old B-movies are full of surprises.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAren BergstromJuly 10, 2026Richard Fleischer, Sydney Boehm, William L. Heath, Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan, Lee Marvin, J. Carrol Naish, Sylvia Sidney, Ernest BorgnineComment

Review: Exit 8 (2025)

Genki Kawamura’s video game adaptation Exit 8 is an effective puzzle thriller.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 24, 2026Genki Kawamura, Kentaro Hirase, The Exit 8, Exit 8, Kotake Create, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, Nana KomatsuComment

Review: Disclosure Day (2026)

An uneven work of science fiction by a master filmmaker who is firmly in his “late style” phase.

Why Obsession (2025) Is Not Reinventing Horror

Curry Barker’s smash hit is an effective Gen Z thriller, but it’s not revolutionary in terms of form or content.

Aren's Reviews, Essays, Movies TodayAren BergstromJune 17, 2026Curry Barker, Michael Johnson, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter, Obsession Comments

Review: Ladies First (2026)

Netflix’s high concept comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen has one decent joke that it plays to exhaustion.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 10, 2026Ladies First, Thea Sharrock, Natalie Krinsky, Cinco Paul, Katie Silberman, I Am Not an Easy Man, Eleonore Pourriat, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Tom Davis, Richard E. Grant, Fiona ShawComment

Review: Days of Thunder (1990)

Tony Scott’s Days of Thunder starring Tom Cruise is an effective mainstream crowdpleaser.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromJune 8, 2026Days of Thunder, Tony Scott, Robert Towne, Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Nicole Kidman, Michael Rooker, Cary Elwes, John C. Reilly, Fred Dalton Thompson, Caroline WilliamsComment

Review: RoboCop (1987)

Anders revisits Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi action-satire and finds a new appreciation of the film.

Flash Back, ReviewsAnders BergstromJune 5, 2026RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven, science fiction action, satire, 1980s nostalgiaComment

Review: Backrooms (2026)

The YouTube phenomenon makes its way to the big screen in this “liminal space” horror film.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnders BergstromJune 4, 2026horror, liminal space, YouTube, creepypasta, Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate ReinsveComment

Review: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Playing it safe, Jon Favreau’s command of action and genre conventions make The Mandalorian and Grogu a success.

Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025)

Olivier Assayas has made a rare thing: a portrait of modern Russia as a complex, living thing.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 22, 2026The Wizard of the Kremlin, Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrere, Giuliano da Empoli, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Kean, Jeffrey Wright, Jude LawComment

Review: Michael (2026)

Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic is a cinematic fantasy, for better and for worse.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 12, 2026Michael, Michael Jackson, Antoine Fuqua, John Logan, Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Juliano Valdi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, Colman DomingoComment