Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Spencer (2021)

Pablo Larraín’s film starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana smartly plays more like a psychological horror film than a tasteful biopic.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromNovember 29, 2021Spencer, Pablo Larrain, Steven Knight, Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen, Freddie SpryComment

Review: Untold: Crime & Penalties (2021)

The Way Brothers’ raucous film about the Danbury Trashers plays like a sequel to their previous sports documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 18, 2021Untold, Crime & Penalties, Maclain Way, Chapman Way, documentaryComment

1917 (2019) Is Slick and Relentless, But Unconvincing as a Study of War

1917 can only seem incredibly real and immersive for generations far removed from the actual horrors of 1914–1918.

Review: A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

Rodney Ascher’s film on the simulation hypothesis plays more like a religious testament than a documentary primer.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 8, 2021A Glitch in the Matrix, Rodney Ascher, simulation hypothesis, Philip K. DickComment

Roundtable: Dune (2021)

Digging into Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, focusing on its immersive cinematic experience, its role as an adaptation, and its visuals and sound.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Major Films of the Classic Universal Horror Series

Ranking the iconic Universal horror classics, including Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man.

Features, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 30, 2021Universal, Universal Horror, Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, The Raven, The Creature from the Black LagoonComment

Halloween Horror: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

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

Halloween Horror: Cure (1997)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror drama is a quiet film with a haunting effect that’s as disturbing as anything you’ll find in horror cinema.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 27, 2021Halloween Horror, Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Koji Takusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato HagiwaraComment

Halloween Horror: Re-Animator (1985)

Stuart Gordon’s cult classic Lovecraft adaptation starring Jeffrey Combs is a dark comedy of memorable grotesquery.

Halloween Horror, Flash Back, ReviewsAnders BergstromOctober 25, 2021Halloween Horror, horror comedy, Jeffrey Combs, Stuart Gordon, H- P- Lovecraft, Barbara Crampton, 1980sComment

Halloween Horror: The Old Ways (2020)

Depending on your affection for and familiarity with exorcism films, Christopher Alender’s The Old Ways may seem admirably novel or hopelessly rote.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 18, 2021The Old Ways, Halloween Horror, Netflix, Christopher Alender, Marcos Gabriel, Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, AJ BowenComment

Review: Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Andy Serkis’s Venom sequel is a deliriously entertaining, profoundly goofy camp blockbuster.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromOctober 13, 2021Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Andy Serkis, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy, Marvel, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody HarrelsonComment

Review: No Time to Die (2021)

No Time to Die is pulled in too many directions by the trends and tastes of the moment, displaying a less sure vision of who Bond is in the second decade of the 21st century.

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

Table Talk: Paul Schrader and Hardcore (1979)

Anton and Anders discuss the influences, themes, and merits of Paul Schrader’s second directorial work.

RoundtablesAnton BergstromOctober 1, 2021Paul Schrader, pornography, religion, Neo-noir, Boogie Nights, Taxi Driver, The SearchersComment

Review: Candyman (2021)

Nia DaCosta’s legacy sequel to Candyman is an ambitious horror movie with a great visual style and score that’s held back by its disappointing ending and reductive themes.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromSeptember 29, 2021Candyman, Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Spence, Michael Hargrove, Brian KingComment

TIFF21: Burning

Eva Orner’s documentary about the Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 is a quick-paced and informative, if overly conventional, work that’s best when it lets its anger fuel its storytelling.