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The Violent Provocation of Alex Garland's Civil War (2024)

Alex Garland’s Civil War is more provocative exploitation film than political treatise.

Essays, Movies TodayAren BergstromMay 22, 2024Civil War, Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jefferson White, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Jesse PlemonsComment

Roundtable: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

The Brothers dig into Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, interrogating its structure, length, and point of view.

RoundtablesAnton BergstromFebruary 2, 2024Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, Eric Roth, David Grann, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower MoonComment

Review: Windfall (2022)

Windfall is a minimalist thriller whose modest dramatic tension is thrown off balance by its miscasting.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 27, 2022Windfall, Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader, Andrew Kevin Walker, Jason Segel, Lily Collins, Jesse PlemonsComment

Predicting the 2022 Oscars

Aren offers his predictions for the 2022 Oscars, as well as his personal picks for each category.

FeaturesAren BergstromMarch 25, 2022Belfast, CODA, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story, Javier Bardem, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Garfield, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Being the Ricardos, Tick Tick Boom, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Lost Daughter, Parallel Mothers, Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Olivia Colman, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, Ciaran Hinds, Troy Kotsur, Jesse Plemons, J. K. Simmons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jessie Buckley, Ariana DeBose, Judi Dench, Kirsten Dunst, Aunjanue Ellis, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kenneth Branagh, Jane Campion, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Steven Spielberg, The Worst Person in the World, Cruella, Cyrano, No Time to Die, Free Guy, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Coming 2 America, House of Guci, House of Gucci, Encanto, Ascension, Attica, Flee, Summer of Soul, Writing with Fire, The Hand of God, Lunana A Yak in the Classroom, Luca, The Mitchells vs The Machines, Raya and the Last Dragon

Roundtable: The Power of the Dog (2021)

The Brothers dig into Jane Campion’s Western, examining its depictions of the American West, exploration of masculinity, and the meaning of the title.

RoundtablesAnton BergstromJanuary 21, 2022The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion, Thomas Savage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine, Frances ConroyComment

Table Talk: The Irishman a.k.a. I Heard You Paint Houses (2019)

Anders and Aren break down the intricacies of Martin Scorsese’s haunting new film, The Irishman, including its iconic cast and connections to Scorsese’s previous film.