Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

Return of the Jedi is both a technological marvel and one of cinema’s most powerful redemption narratives.

Review: Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Kindergarten Cop is sentimental, but also a strong encapsulation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s strengths as a performer.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 9, 2019Kindergarten Cop, Ivan Reitman, Murray Salem, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson, Carroll Baker, Arnold SchwarzeneggerComment

Review: Armageddon (1998)

While it is often dismissed as a prime example of bad, American action films, Michael Bay’s Armageddon is actually carefully constructed, developing its film style in service of a powerful work of American propaganda.

Reviews, Michael Bay, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnders BergstromJuly 19, 2019Armageddon, Michael Bay, 1998, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, action, propaganda, disaster movie, global disaster, NASA Comment

Review: A Star is Born (1937)

Anton looks back at the original telling and the two myths of Hollywood it presents.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromApril 18, 2019A Star Is Born, Janet Gaynor, Frederic March, William A. Wellman, Dorothy Parker, Hollywood, classical Hollywood style, myth, movie starComment

David Cronenberg: Maps to the Stars (2014)

The last review in our Cronenberg Retrospective considers his bizarre Gothic Hollywood satire.

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.