Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Halloween Horror: Last Night in Soho (2021)

Last Night in Soho has an incredible premise and many excellent features, which makes it especially disappointing when the film goes off the rails.

Halloween Horror: Pearl (2022)

Ti West’s Pearl is a terrific showcase for Mia Goth, as well as clever franchise extension to X from earlier this year.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromOctober 6, 2022Pearl, X, Ti West, Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair SewellComment

Review: Eternal Spring (2022)

Using animation to recreate the subjects’ memories, Eternal Spring considers the hijacking in 2002 of broadcast TV by a group of Falun Gong practitioners in northeastern China.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromOctober 5, 2022documentary, animation, China, CCP, Falun Gong, Eternal Spring, Jason Loftus, Daxiong, memory, persecutionComment

Halloween Horror: Barbarian (2022)

Zach Cregger’s trendy new horror movie plays with our expectations of horror in funny, weird, truly bizarre ways.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromSeptember 30, 2022Halloween Horror, Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard, Justin Long, Richard Brake, Barbarian, Zach CreggerComment

TIFF22: Theater of Thought

Werner Herzog’s Theater of Thought is as much a detour into his mind and way of thinking as a documentary about the science of the mind.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 15, 2022Theater of Thought, Werner Herzog, TIFF22, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF22: The Eternal Daughter

Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter is a ghost story that plays more as confessional autofiction than horror film.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 13, 2022TIFF22, Toronto International Film Festival, The Eternal Daughter, Joanna Hogg, Tilda SwintonComment

TIFF22: Godland

Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland is a beguiling, beautiful film about the terrifying power of nature.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 9, 2022Hlynur Pálmason, Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Jacob Lohmann, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Godland, Iceland, DenmarkComment

Ranking the Christopher Reeve Superman Movies

Anton ranks and discusses all four Christopher Reeve Superman movies.

FeaturesAnton BergstromSeptember 6, 2022Superman, superhero, superheroes, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Richard Donner, Richard LesterComment

Review: Beast (2022)

Baltasar Kormákur’s Beast is effective late summer B-movie entertainment with a great Idris Elba at its centre.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromSeptember 1, 2022Beast, Baltasar Kormákur, Ryan Engle, Jaime Primak Sullivan, Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Sava Jeffries, Sharlto CopleyComment

Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Halina Reijn’s horror comedy/satire is as vapid and repetitive as the social media feeds that inspired it.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 22, 2022Bodies Bodies Bodies, A24, Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian, Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, Pete DavidsonComment

Review: Signs (2002)

20 years on Shyamalan’s film is still an effective extraterrestrial thriller, but it’s in the human emotions and performances where it really shines.

Flash Back, ReviewsAnders BergstromAugust 19, 2022M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, supernatural thriller, aliens, alien invasion, thriller, SignsComment

Review: Bullet Train (2022)

Brad Pitt showcases his star power in this B-grade action comedy.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 12, 2022Bullet Train, David Leitch, Zak Olkewicz, Kotaro Isaka, Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, Sandra BullockComment

Review: Fire of Love (2022)

Sara Dosa’s documentary on Katia and Maurice Krafft takes advantage of their remarkable footage to craft a tragic love story.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 4, 2022Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Erin Casper, Jocelyn Chaput, Miranda July, Maurice Krafft, Katia KrafftComment

Review: The Gray Man (2022)

Joe and Anthony Russo’s Netflix action blockbuster is modestly diverting content, but ultimately pulls it punches.

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: The Black Phone (2021)

Scott Derrickson’s horror film contemplates tangible evil and how divine grace can overcome it.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJuly 8, 2022The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Joe Hill, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, James RansoneComment

Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is marked by a strong performance by Denzel Washington as well as a preoccupation with its own artifice.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJuly 7, 2022William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, tragedy, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Brendan Gleeson, Alex Hassell, Kathryn Hunter, Corey Hawkins, Ralph Ineson, Stephen RootComment

Review: Spiderhead (2022)

As far as streaming content goes, Spiderhead isn’t bad, but it asks questions it has no real interest in answering.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 28, 2022Spiderhead, Netflix, Joseph Kosinski, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, George Saunders, Escape From Spiderhead, Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Verlaine, Tess Haubrich, Angie MillikanComment

Review: The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)

Knotts and Conway’s bumbling outlaw duo make The Apple Dumpling Gang an amusing entry point into the Western genre for little kids.

Reviews, Flash BackAnton BergstromJune 24, 2022western, comedy, comedy duo, family, bank robberyComment