I listened to an episode of the SmartLess podcast on a recent road trip, which is hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, featuring Bradley Cooper. But it escaped me that Cooper was directing a film starring Arnett, where Hayes has a small supporting role. The story centers on a middle-aged man, Alex …
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FlixChatter Guest Review: CAUGHT STEALING (2025) – Darren Aronofsky’s hyper-violent crime thriller is a little too frantic and aimless
Directed by Darren AronofskyWritten by Charlie HustonStarring: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane Well known for his stylistic grit, thematic heaviness, and unique atmosphere, Aronofsky has often pushed boundaries. Classics like Pi (1998), Black Swan (2010), and Requiem for a Dream (2000) justified his …
FlixChatter Review: Highest 2 Lowest (2025) – Denzel is always the highlight of any film and A$ap Rocky delivers, but the score is its lowest point
Highest 2 Lowest marks the fifth time Denzel Washington and Spike Lee have teamed up. This time, Lee decided to reinterpret Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 procedural thriller High and Low, which was based on Ed McBain's novel, King’s Ransom. Lee shifts the focus from a Tokyo shoe executive to a music mogul in modern-day NYC. The …
FlixChatter Review: MAESTRO (2023) – Cooper really ups his game as a filmmaker, while Mulligan is the film’s acting MVP
With a title like Maestro, one might naturally expect a music biopic of one of the world’s most influential conductors of the 20th century. Given it’s one of my most anticipated films of the year, I knew going in that writer/director Bradley Cooper intended to chronicle the complex relationship between Leonard Bernstein and his wife, …
Don’t Worry Darling Review – Florence Pugh’s performance makes this tedious utopian mystery watchable
Even if you just casually browse news or social media, one would be hard pressed NOT to hear any of the drama about this movie. I tried to tune it out but it's virtually impossible. Well, in an industry where there's no such thing as bad publicity, Olivia Wilde's sophomore effort could practically market itself …
FIVE best cinematographers in Hollywood (not named Roger Deakins)
The process of making films is very difficult, whether it’s a short or full-length feature, one needs to put together a team of talented people in order to produce something that one can be proud of. One key component to make any film work is the person who does the actual shooting. The director tends …
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FlixChatter Review: A Star Is Born (2018)
Once in a while, a film came along that you couldn’t stop thinking and talking about for days, maybe weeks. I may be one of the last few people in the universe who have never seen any of the three prior adaptation of A Star Is Born. Somehow I managed to avoid reading about the …
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