Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Pathfinder (1987)

Retelling a Sami legend, Nils Gaup’s Pathfinder is both an act of cultural preservation and a thrilling action-adventure.

Remembering the Film Scholar David Bordwell (1947-2024)

Anton and Anders discuss the ideas and impact of the film scholar David Bordwell, who recently passed away.

FeaturesAnton BergstromMarch 22, 2024David Bordwell, Remembering David Bordwell, film scholarship, Christopher Nolan, art cinema, network narrative, continuity editing, intensified continuityComment

Review: Out of Africa (1985)

Sydney Pollack’s Best Picture winner feels like a film of a different age, and is all the better for it.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 18, 2024Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack, Kurt Luedtke, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Shane RimmerComment

The Importance of Friendship and Marriage in the John Adams (2008) Miniseries

John Adams is smart about politics and history but also has a careful eye for friendship and marriage.

Review: Seagrass (2023)

Seagrass is ultimately compelling because there are enough moments of artistic expression and perceptive character building to balance the more didactic storytelling.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 4, 2024Seagrass, Canadian film, Meredith Hama-Brown, Ally Maki, Luke Roberts, Nyha Huang Breitkreuz, Remy Marthaller, Sarah Gadon, Chris PangComment

Review: Men in Black (1997)

Our world is too fragmented and our cinema too convoluted to allow for movies as simply, competently fun as Men in Black.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 27, 2024Men in Black, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ed Solomon, Lowell Cunningham, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Mike NussbaumComment

Review: Perfect Days (2023)

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is a beautiful corrective to the busyness of everyday life.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 21, 2024Perfect Days, Wim Wenders, Tokyo, Ozu, Takuma Takasaki, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi YamadaComment

Review: Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

The 2011 movie version of Mr. Popper’s Penguins shows little interest in the classic children’s book, let alone affection for it.

Review: Night Nurse (1931)

Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck is a reminder of the salacious storytelling of pre-Code Hollywood.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 13, 2024Night Nurse, William A. Wellman, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Charles Kenyon, Dora Macy, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, pre-CodeComment

Rome (2005) Should Be In the Pantheon of Great TV Shows

Season 1 demonstrates that Rome deserves to be ranked among the highest achievements of the Golden Age of Television.

Review: American Fiction (2023)

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction strikes a delicate balance between hilarious satire and understated family drama.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2024American Fiction, Cord Jefferson, Erasure, Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Sterling K. BrownComment

Roundtable: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

The Brothers dig into Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, interrogating its structure, length, and point of view.

RoundtablesAnton BergstromFebruary 2, 2024Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, Eric Roth, David Grann, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower MoonComment

Review: Shipwrecked (1990)

Shipwrecked is a competent boys’ own adventure, played without irony, revisionism, or computer-generated fakeness.

Review: Seven Veils (2023)

Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils is a vital, messy piece of self-expression from the Canadian auteur.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 29, 2024Seven Veils, Salome, Atom Egoyan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O'Brien, Vinessa Antoine, TIFFComment

Review: Maestro (2023)

Contradiction is the governing thematic and formal design for Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 24, 2024Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, biopic, classical music, conductor, sexuality, marriage, Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer, Carey Mulligan, composerComment

Review: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is decent entertainment, but a significant step down from the original film.

Genocide Just Over the Fence: Defamiliarization in Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest (2023)

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is like an art installation about what exists just outside the frame.

Essays, Movies TodayAren BergstromJanuary 19, 2024The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer, The Holocaust, Auschwitz, Genocide Just Over the Fence, Defamiliarization in Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of InterestComment

Review: Wonka (2023)

Wonka is more like Paul King’s Paddington movies than either Gene Wilder’s 1971 adaptation or Roald Dahl’s original book.

Top 10 Films of 2023

Aren shares his favourite films from 2023, including Oppenheimer, The Boy and the Heron, and The Maiden.

FeaturesAren BergstromJanuary 15, 2024Oppenheimer, The Boy and the Heron, The Maiden, Suzume, Skinamarink, The Holdovers, BlackBerry, Master Gardener, The Killer, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Best of 2023, Best Films of 2023, Top 10 Films of 2023Comment

Review: Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire (2023)

Although there are plenty of enjoyable Zack Snyder trademarks, the final result is never enough of its own thing.