Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Soul Boy (2010)

Soul Boy is classical storytelling with astute observations on class.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 7, 2019Hawa Essuman, Billy Kahora, Samson Odhiambo, Leila Dayan Opou, Krysteen Savane, Frank Kimani, Joab Ogolla, Lucy Gachanja, Katherine Damaris, Kevin Onyango Omondi, Calvin Shikuku Odhiambo, Nordeen Abdulghani, Soul BoyComment

David Cronenberg: A Dangerous Method (2011)

A self-portrait and manifesto that captures the psychological concepts that define David Cronenberg and his work.

David Cronenberg, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 22, 2019David Cronenberg, David Cronenberg Retrospective, Christopher Hampton, A Dangerous Method, The Talking Cure, A Most Dangerous Method, John Kerr, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon, Vincent CasselComment

Christmas: Lethal Weapon (1987)

The buddy cop classic is an exceptional action film, but it also hides a serious look at suicide and the need for family in its blockbuster antics.

Christmas, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 18, 2018Lethal Weapon, Richard Donner, Shane Black, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, Jackie Swanson, Traci WolfeComment

Review: Fear and Desire (1953)

Kubrick’s first feature is an intriguing yet flawed allegorical war picture.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromNovember 22, 2018Stanley Kubrick, Howard Sackler, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Stephen Coit, Virginia Leith, David Allen, Fear and Desire, war, war movie, anti-war movie, allegory, first film, low-budgetComment

David Cronenberg: Crash (1996)

An explosive work that interrogates sex in ways that cinema rarely manages and captures the profound atomization of our modern world.

David Cronenberg, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 16, 2018David Cronenberg, J.G. Ballard, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Peter MacNeill, David Cronenberg Retrospective, CrashComment

David Cronenberg: M. Butterfly (1993)

David Cronenberg’s most-forgotten film is a dramatic powerhouse and an insightful deconstruction of misogyny and Orientalist notions of China.

David Cronenberg, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 9, 2018David Cronenberg, David Cronenberg Retrospective, M. Butterfly, Madama Butterfly, David Henry Hwang, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian RichardsonComment

Review: War Dogs (2016)

Todd Phillips mimics the films of Martin Scorsese to get a kick out of bad behaviour without excusing it.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 10, 2018Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Polla, War Dogs, Todd Phillips, Stephen Chin, Jason Smilovic, Arms and the Dudes, Guy Lawson, The HangoverComment

David Cronenberg: Fast Company (1979)

While Fast Company is a radical departure for Cronenberg, it’s also a confidently-made and satisfying B-movie about drag racing.

David Cronenberg, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMay 30, 2018William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Cedric Smith, David Cronenberg, Phil Savath, Courtney Smith, Fast Company, David Cronenberg Retrospective Comments

David Cronenberg: Rabid (1977)

Rabid shows Cronenberg refining and developing his unique style of body-horror in this cult-classic film about a vampiric-epidemic in Montreal.

David Cronenberg, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnders BergstromMay 11, 2018Rabid, Shivers, David Cronenberg, body horror, horror, sex, Marilyn Chambers, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Cronenberg on CronenbergComment

David Cronenberg: Shivers (1975)

Shivers proves Cronenberg capable of conjuring conventionally-appealing entertainment that still has the capacity to shock with its imagery and dazzle with its ideas.

David Cronenberg, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromApril 11, 2018Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Alan Migicovsky, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele, Ron Mlodzik, David Cronenberg, ShiversComment

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

Halloween Horror: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

This third Halloween film is worth a look for its horror thrills and critique of holiday consumerism.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Halloween Horror IIAnders BergstromOctober 31, 2017Tommy Lee Wallace, Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy Comment

Halloween Horror: Blair Witch (2016)

An assaultive exercise in found-footage terror.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 13, 2017Adam Wingard, Blair Witch, Brandon Scott, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Halloween, Halloween Horror, James Allen McCune, Simon Barrett, Valerie Curry, Wes RobinsonComment

Review: The Rock (1996)

Pop cinema is rarely so satisfying.

Review: Rising Sun (1993)

Passable thriller, but fascinating juncture.

Review: High Plains Drifter (1973)

This is a vicious film that has nothing but contempt for American hypocrisy.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 28, 2017Billy Curtis, Clint Eastwood, Ernest Tidyman, Geoffrey Lewis, High Plains Drifter, Jack Ging, Mariana Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Scott Walker, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Verna Bloom, Walter Barnes, westernComment

Halloween Horror: The Others (2001)

Richly atmospheric ghost story.

Halloween Horror: Hellraiser (1987)

The gore effects are astounding.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIIAren BergstromOctober 29, 2015Andrew Robinson, Ashley Laurence, body horror, Clare Higgins, Cliver Barker, Doug Bradley, gore, Halloween Horror, Hellraiser, horror, Oliver Smith, Sean ChapmanComment

Halloween Horror: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

Chilling in its mundanity.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIIAren BergstromOctober 15, 2015Halloween, Halloween Horror, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, horror, John McNaughton, Michael Rooker, Richard Fire, serial killer, slasher, Tom Towles, Tracy ArnoldComment

James Bond 007: The Living Daylights (1987)

Consider Dalton an injection of energy.