Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Christmas: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner is an exceptional romantic comedy that captures the intellectual and emotional fencing match that is early romance.

Christmas, Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 19, 2017Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Ernst Lubitsch, Samson Raphaelson, Ben Hecht, Parfumerie, The Shop Around the Corner, Christmas Comment

Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is as shamelessly manipulative and formulaic as a Hallmark picture, but at least those films are self-consistent.

Review: The Disaster Artist (2017)

This is a work of exceptional sympathy, of one artist bonding with another and transcending his own failings as he explores the failings of another.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 8, 2017James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson, Jacki Weaver, The Disaster Artist, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, Tom BissellComment

Review: Marjorie Prime (2017)

Marjorie Prime is a modest science fiction film that prompts big questions about identity and memory.

ReviewsAnders BergstromDecember 7, 2017Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, science fiction, memory, artificial intelligenceComment

Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is funny and thoughtful with moments of arresting pathos, but it's also a little confounding.

Review: Wheelman (2017)

Wheelman is the sort of honest B-movie entertainment that Netflix ought to be funding more often.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 4, 2017Frank Grillo, Garret Dillahunt, Caitlin Carmichael, Wendy Moniz, Shea Whigham., WheelmanComment

Review: Atomic Blonde (2017)

Atomic Blonde is an obvious, cliché and, most sadly, boring spy action film cobbled together from secondhand tropes and pop culture references.

ReviewsAnders BergstromDecember 1, 2017Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron, action film, Cold War, James McAvoyComment

Review: Justice League (2017)

Justice League is merely good, while aspects of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the presence of both Whedon and Snyder suggest that it could’ve been great.

Review: 11/8/16 (2017)

There’s no good reason for 11/8/16 to exist in this moment, beyond our obsessive need to relive past trauma with no desire to learn from it.

Over the Garden Wall Is a Fairy Tale for the Adventure Time Generation

Patrick McHale's series captures the moral storytelling and darkness of early-modern fairy tales, even as it contains modern sensibilities in humour and character.

TV CornerAren BergstromNovember 16, 2017Over the Garden Wall, Cartoon Network, Patrick McHale, Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd, Jack Jones, Samuel Ramey Comment

A Few Thoughts on Defamiliarization in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge

Featuring various techniques of defamiliarization, Hacksaw Ridge is war film that is both conventional and original, and, ultimately, deeply affecting.

Ozark is Compelling Second-Tier TV

Neither as slick and enthralling as Narcos, nor as well-shot or well-acted as Bloodline, Ozark is still surprisingly capable and sometimes excellent. This is solid second-tier TV.