Blog — 3 Brothers Film

TIFF19: Weathering with You

Makoto Shinkai’s follow-up to Your Name is a similarly high-concept exercise in empathy.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 13, 2019Weathering with You, Your Name, Makoto Shinkai, Kotaro Daigu, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Tsubasa Honda, Chieko Baisho, Sakura Kiryu, animeComment

TIFF19: The Platform

The Platform is both an allegory for class warfare and a seriously entertaining science-fiction horror film.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 12, 2019The Platform, TIFF, TIFF19, Toronto International Film Festival, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, David Desola, Pedro Rivero, Ivan Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale, Alexandra MasangkayComment

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

The simplicity and iconicity of Star Wars obscures its remarkable formal achievement.

Star Wars, Reviews, Flash BackAnton BergstromSeptember 11, 2019Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Wars Retrospective, Star Wars: A New Hope, George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, myth, hero's journey, legendComment

TIFF19: Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal has one of the most astounding sound designs in recent memory.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 10, 2019Sound of Metal, Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance, Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, Mathieu Amalric, Domenico Toledo, TIFF19, TIFF, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

Review: Ready or Not (2019)

A gruesome, funny B-movie to end the summer movie season.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 5, 2019Ready or Not, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell, Nicky Guadagni, Melanie Scrofano, Elyse Levesque, Kristian Bruun, John RalstonComment

Review: American Factory (2019)

A remarkable documentary that gets at the inherent tensions of a globalized economy.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 30, 2019Netflix, American Factory, Julie Reichert, Steven Bognar, Barack Obama, FuyaoComment

Star Wars: 5 Questions That Need to Be Addressed in The Rise of Skywalker

In the wake of the new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the Brothers point out pertinent issues with the Disney Trilogy that need addressing.

Star Wars, FeaturesAnton BergstromAugust 29, 2019Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, MacGuffin, mysteryComment

Review: The Great Hack (2019)

The Great Hack is an addictive primer on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but it avoids delving into the muddier waters of its subject matter.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 23, 2019The Great Hack, Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Erin Barnett, Cambridge AnalyticaComment

Review: The Highwaymen (2019)

John Lee Hancock’s revisionist take on Bonnie and Clyde leans into Western conventions while flirting with a deeper take on the mythology of American violence.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 16, 2019The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock, John Fusco, Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, John Carroll Lynch, Kim Dickens, Thomas Mann, William Sadler, Bonnie and ClydeComment

Ranking the Films of the Jurassic Park Series

Aren looks back at the Jurassic Park series and offers an assessment of each film, as well as a final ranking.

FeaturesAren BergstromAugust 14, 2019Ranking the Jurassic Park Series, Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomComment

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

Growing Up On Tatooine: A Personal Reflection on Star Wars: A New Hope

Anton offers a short reflection on what Star Wars: A New Hope means to him.

Star Wars, EssaysAnton BergstromAugust 8, 2019Star Wars, Star Wars: A New Hope, Lawrence of Arabia, Saskatoon, childhood, adolescence, cinema, favourite movies, personal reflectionComment

Roundtable: Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (2019)

The Brothers discuss Quentin Tarantino’s latest and its huge cast, historical revisionism, and function as a fairy tale.

RoundtablesAren BergstromAugust 2, 2019Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Baker, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Al Pacino, Once Upon a Time ... in HollywoodComment

Introduction to Star Wars Retrospective

The 3 Brothers begin their retrospective on the most popular film series of all time, Star Wars.

Features, Star WarsAren BergstromJuly 31, 2019Star Wars, Star Wars Retrospective, George Lucas, DisneyComment

Review: The Lion King (2019)

The 2019 photorealistic remake of the 1994 classic is pointless nostalgia.

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.