Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Anders discovers and digs into William Peter Blatty's exploration of faith, despair, and madness.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnders BergstromMarch 30, 2018The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, existentialism, Catholicism, Jason Miller, Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Ed Flanders, horror, drama, psychological horrorComment

Review: It Comes at Night (2017)

It Comes at Night is often beautiful and atmospheric and interesting, but it is not scary and it is not exciting.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 29, 2018Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Riley Keough, Griffin Robert Faulkner, It Comes at Night, Trey Edward ShultsComment

David Cronenberg: Secret Weapons (Programme X, 1972)

Secret Weapons is a failed experiment, but like most failed experiments, the recipe for future success is present in its dysfunction.

Review: Grimsby (2016)

Disgusting, ungainly, and offensive to every shred of decency a person may have. But also extremely funny.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 23, 2018Grimsby, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Gabourey Sidibe, Louis Leterrier, Phil Johnston, Peter BaynhamComment

Review: Annihilation (2018)

Ex Machina was a promising debut and a superior work of science-fiction, but Annihilation is on a whole other level.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 16, 2018Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, Oscar Isaac, Alex Garland, Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation, Ex MachinaComment

Review: Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)

If you were charmed by the adventures of Kiki and Chihiro and Mei and Satsuki in the films of Studio Ghibli, the adventure of Mary and the cat Tib will delight you.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 14, 2018Ruby Barnhill, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Riko Sakaguchi, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Studio Ponoc, Studio GhibliComment

David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future (1970)

Crimes of the Future is a clear progression of the experimental filmmaking of Stereo and a stepping-stone towards the sexual body horror of Shivers.

David Cronenberg, Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Most PopularAren BergstromMarch 9, 2018Ron Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Jack Messinger, Paul Mulholland, William Haslam, William Poolman, David Cronenberg, Crimes of the FutureComment

Review: Faces Places (2017)

Faces Places is a moving film and worth celebrating, if only for the fact that at almost-90, Agnès Varda hasn't slowed down.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 7, 2018Agnès Varda, JR, Faces PlacesComment

Predicting the 2018 Oscars

Anders and Aren offer up their predictions and preferences for winners at the 90th Annual Academy Awards.

Review: Black Panther (2018)

It never breaks free of the confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Black Panther is exciting and dramatically-rich in ways few MCU films are.

David Cronenberg: Stereo (1969)

Stereo is dramatically boring, but it's an essential prototype of the sort of clinical, art-horror that Cronenberg would become known for.

Flash Back, Reviews, David Cronenberg, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 23, 2018Ron Mlodzik, Jack Messinger, Iain Ewing, Clara Mayer, Paul Mulholland, Arlene Mlodzik, Glenn McCauley, Stereo, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, David Cronenberg Comment

Review: Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan thrills with confined railcar suspense, large-scale disaster action, and effective social commentary.

Review: The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

This is a bizarre film, but one that confronts reality in often-fascinating ways.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 19, 2018Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Judy Greer, Jenna Fischer, Clint Eastwood, Dorothy Blyskal, Jeffrey E. Stern, The 15:17 to ParisComment

Introduction to David Cronenberg Retrospective

The 3 Brothers begin their retrospective on Canada's greatest living filmmaker, David Cronenberg.

Features, David CronenbergAren BergstromFebruary 17, 2018David CronenbergComment

Review: The Breadwinner (2017)

With grace and unflinching honesty, The Breadwinner powerfully contemplates the power of stories and the meaning of hardship in the world.

The Current: In Theatres, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 9, 2018Saara Chaudry, Soma Bhatia, Noorin Gulamguas, Kane Mahon, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah, Shaista Latif, Nora Twomey, The Breadwinner, Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis, Cartoon SaloonComment

Review: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

The Cloverfield Paradox has no meaningful reason to exist beyond providing tenuous connections to the two other films in the franchise.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 6, 2018Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz, Chris O’Dowd, Aksel Hennie, Zhang Ziyi, Elizabeth Debicki, Julius Onah, Oren Uziel, Doug Jung, The Coverfield Paradox, Cloverfield, J.J. AbramsComment

Anders' Top 10 Films of 2017

Phantom Thread, Lady Bird, and Get Out all feature in Anders' top films of 2017.

FeaturesAnders BergstromFebruary 2, 2018Top 10, Top 10 Films of 2017, Phantom Thread, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, The Lost City of Z, Mudbound, Good Time, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Mother, Get OutComment

Review: The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

An appropriate wedding of subject matter and style from Roberto Rossellini.

Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 1, 2018Brother Nazario Gerardi, Brother Severino Pisacane, Esposito Bonaventura, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre, Brother Nazareno, Brother Raffaele, Brother Robert Sorrentino, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, The Flowers of St. FrancisComment

Review: Adam's Rib (1949)

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy remain delightful, but whatever cultural power Adam's Rib once held has been obliterated with time.

Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 26, 2018Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, George Cukor, Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Adam's RibComment

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode III

The Brothers close out their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on the film's politics, visual invention, continuity with The Force Awakens and the Prequel Trilogy.