Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

This childhood favourite is tightly narrated, well-structured, and seriously-made yet loose and fun.

Review: Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Gene Tierney gives her most iconic performance in this terrific Technicolor noir.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromJuly 12, 2022Leave Her to Heaven, John M. Stahl, Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams, Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Craine, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Gene Lockhart, Reed Hadley, Darryl HickmanComment

Review: Almost Holy (2015)

This 2015 documentary about Ukrainian Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko asks the question: what does it look like to live out the gospel in the modern world?

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 15, 2022Almost Holy, Steve Hoover, Crocodile GennadiyComment

Review: Gaslight (1944)

Gaslight is a brilliant, disturbing portrait of psychological torment in the domestic sphere.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromMarch 10, 2022Gaslight, George Cukor, John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury, May Whitty, Gothic, mystery, thriller, classical Hollywood, feminismComment

Review: Bulworth (1998)

Warren Beatty’s political satire, Bulworth, finds new relevance in a post-Trump world.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 16, 2022Bulworth, Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, Isaiah WashingtonComment

Review: Nightmare Alley (1947)

Nightmare Alley is a stunning film noir about a marvellously successful bastard and his dreadful comeuppance.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 10, 2021Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding, Jules Furthman, William Lindsay Gresham, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian KeithComment

Halloween Horror: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

The Most Dangerous Game is a layered, atmospheric pre-Code Hollywood horror-adventure.

Halloween Horror: Unfriended (2014)

Leo Gabriadze’s found-footage horror movie about cyberbullying reinvents the slasher for the digital age.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 8, 2021Unfriended, Halloween Horror, Leo Gabriadze, Nelson Greaves, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson, Heather SossamanComment

Zack Snyder: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a thematically and visually rich film that takes its place among the best Batman and Superman stories of the last few decades.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Zack SnyderAnders BergstromJuly 7, 2021Zack Snyder, DC Comics, Batman, Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Holly Hunter, Jeremy Irons, superheroes, actionComment

Review: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Ida Lupino’s tense film noir anticipates later horror movies in its portrait of uncompromising evil.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMay 28, 2021The Hitch-Hiker, Ida Lupino, Collier Young, Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William TalmanComment

Review: One False Move (1992)

Carl Franklin’s neo-noir is fast, tense, and quietly revealing about how people are and the way the world works.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMay 14, 2021One False Move, Carl Franklin, Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson, Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach, Earl Billings, Jim MetzlerComment

Review: Seconds (1966)

John Frankenheimer’s Seconds deconstructs America in the 1960s and exposes the paranoia and anxieties bubbling under the surface of American culture.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAren BergstromMay 3, 2021John Frankenheimer, Lewis John Carlino, David Ely, Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson, Murray Hamilton, Karl Swenson, Khigh Dhiegh, Frances Reid, SecondsComment

Zack Snyder: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

For all its fantasy adventure tropes and CGI animation conventions, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole has all the formal tics and thematic obsessions of a Snyder film.

Review: Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

A thought-provoking drama about Christian persecution in Nero’s Rome.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromApril 2, 2021Paul Apostle of Christ, St. Paul, Ancient Rome, historical drama, dystopia, persecution, Christianity, early churchComment

Zack Snyder: 300 (2007)

Zack Snyder’s 300 is a heavy metal fever dream and a spellbinding work of comic book mythmaking.

Zack Snyder: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Zack Snyder’s explosive debut is arguably the finest zombie movie ever made.

Zack Snyder, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromMarch 18, 2021Zack Snyder, zombie, horror, post-apocalyptic, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, War on TerrorComment

Review: Den of Thieves (2018)

Christian Gudegast’s 2018 action thriller succeeds by blatantly ripping off Michael Mann’s Heat.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 10, 2021Den of Thieves, Christian Gudegast, Paul Scheuring, Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Curtis Jackson, Evan Jones, Cooper AndrewsComment

Review: Ministry of Fear (1944)

Fritz Lang’s underappreciated Nazi thriller contains rich atmosphere and a potent blend of noir and wartime elements.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromFebruary 4, 2021Ministry of Fear, Nazis, thriller, spy thriller, World War II, film noir, Fritz Lang, Graham Greene, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Erskine SanfordComment

Halloween Horror: Resolution (2012)

Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead’s slow-burn horror film plays like a low-budget, earnest counterpoint to The Cabin in the Woods.

Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 27, 2020Resolution, Halloween Horror, Justin Benson, Aaron Scott Moorhead, Peter Ciella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst JrComment

Halloween Horror: The Last House on the Left (1972)

Wes Craven’s controversial classic horror film uses unrefined formal techniques and realistic content to unsettle viewers and examine the horrors of bloodlust.

Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 21, 2020Halloween Horror, The Last House on the Left, Wes Craven, Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David A. Hess, Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, March Sheffler, Eleanor Shaw, Richard Towers, Marshall Anker, Martin KoveComment