Remakes are almost always met with the same reaction upon announcement: “why?”. To many, remakes are a sign of laziness on the part of studios, opting to lean-in on what audiences know or have a relationship with rather than taking… Read More ›
Month: April 2024
Open Dialogue with “Hard Miles” director R.J. Daniel Hanna.
Matthew Modine stars in the R.J. Daniel Hanna film Hard Miles. Based on a true story, this film explores a man trying to disconnect from his past while leading four troubled youth on a cycling roadtrip from Denver to the… Read More ›
Comic book adaptation “Madame Web” arrives on home video with bonus materials that’ll educate the fans of this Sony-run Marvel film.
It’s been stated before, but it bears reminding: expectations can ruin an experience. This is equally true when the hype ahead of something implies one thing when the truth is something very different. In the real world, it can look… Read More ›
“Dogfight” is a heavyweight film and a lightweight Criterion release.
Nothing in the 1991 film Dogfight is black and white, no matter what the greyscale filter on the box’s cover art and poster may imply. Or maybe, everything is. A cable classic that found its audience after release, Dogfight couldn’t… Read More ›
Let the “Mean Girls” movie musical be “A Cautionary Tale:” classics don’t need remakes.
The original Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday), Rachel McAdams (Game Night), Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body), and Lacey Chabert (Not Another Teen Movie), was released almost exactly 20 years ago on April 30, 2004. Inspired by Queen Bees and… Read More ›
Jazz and animation flow in animated powerhouse “BLUE GIANT” on home video via Shout! Studios.
Adaptations are growing in number more and more these days in entertainment. If there’s not a cinematic version of a book, show, or comic, there’s a television one. Often times, these tales involve beings of incredible strength or speed, of… Read More ›
“Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two” raises the stakes as the annihilation of DC’s animated TomorrowVerse continues.
Event storylines in comics are not unusual. It’s a way to take on something that doesn’t quite fit in the everyday narratives, while also providing a means of both bringing characters together and altering their trajectory. In the world of… Read More ›
Caitlin Cronenberg’s “Humane” mixes the battle royale genre with a reverse whodunnit, creating an uncomfortably real-feeling fictional future.
The word on everyone’s lips in the entertainment industry these days is “nepotism,” and in turn, the term “nepo baby,” used to describe those with immense parental connections within the industry which give them a springboard into their own careers,… Read More ›
Noboru Nakamura’s “The Shape of Night” is the latest Shochiku studio release by Radiance Films.
Trigger Warning: The Shape of Night contains an exploration of sex work, the narrative of which may prove difficult to endure for those who’ve suffered sexual assault. In 1929, Japanese film studio Shochiku was established, transitioning from the theatrical arts… Read More ›
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater revive the ‘80s in wonderfully cozy directorial debut “Downtown Owl.”
Long ago, in a time before the internet and social media, there was a world that Gen X remembers well — the ‘80s had Reagan, the AIDS epidemic, big shoulder pads, bigger hair, bold makeup, and colorful, poppy music videos… Read More ›
15 films to check out during Atlanta Film Festival 2024.
For the first time, Elements of Madness will be covering Atlanta Film Festival and we thought we’d offer up our recommendations of what to check out during the fest or what to keep an eye out for in wider distribution…. Read More ›
To “Beekeeper” or Not To “Beekeeper” is now a question you can answer anytime you want at home.
When one thinks of the filmography of actor Jason Statham, films typically feature him in one of two roles: quiet badass or loudmouth badass. He’s certainly done more with turns in Snatch (2000) and London (2005) demonstrating his versatility, but… Read More ›
A Conversation with “Humane” director Caitlin Cronenberg and actors Jay Baruchel & Emily Hampshire.
Caitlin Cronenberg is set to make her feature-length directorial debut with Humane, a horror thriller releasing in theaters April 26th via IFC Films and Shudder. Ahead of its public debut, Cronenberg and two of the film’s actors, Jay Baruchel and… Read More ›
Head back to 1996 with a 2K restoration of the Jet Li action classic “Black Mask” via Eureka Entertainment.
Despite living in an age where thousands of films are available at the touch of a button, there’re still far too many films that are either difficult-bordering-on-impossible to stream, thereby making physical media the best way to access what you… Read More ›
“Abigail” is buckets of bloody fun even while treading familiar Radio Silence territory.
Radio Silence’s Abigail comes hot off the heels of two very unfortunate events surrounding its main cast. First, and easily the less tragic of the two, is the sheer publicity surrounding the firing of its main star Melissa Barrera from… Read More ›
Cult Epics offers a world premiere 4K UHD restoration of Tinto Brass’s erotic dramedy “All Ladies Do It.”
Despite the push in the United States to regulate it in order to promote a very specific agenda tied to faith, sex is not a bad thing. It can be awkward, messy, and silly, but when it’s between consenting adults,… Read More ›
Very loosely based on a real story, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” provides the typical Ritchie mid-level romp.
Guy Ritchie has become something of a young Ridley Scott lately, not in any stylistic choices he’s making as a filmmaker, not at all, but merely in the sheer quantity of his output. In the past five years alone, Ritchie… Read More ›
“Challengers” is a Movie Star Grand Slam!
A backwater tennis court, a “challenger” tennis tournament, in Rochelle, New York. Mike Faist (West Side Story; The Bikeriders) as Art and Josh O’Connor (La Chimera; Cinderella) as Patrick are battling on this small-town court. Zendaya’s (Dune Part Two; The… Read More ›
Director Martin Bourboulon sticks the landing in the concluding portion of his “The Three Musketeers” adaptation – “Part II: Milady.”
As satisfying as it can be to view one whole story when you sit down to enjoy a film, there are exceptions where a second (or more) is needed to really make it satiating. Especially when it comes to adaptations,… Read More ›
“Monolith” Blu-ray Giveaway
After spending time on the festival circuit, Matt Vesely’s feature-length directorial debut, Monolith, starring Evil Dead Rise‘s Lily Sullivan, released into U.S. theaters February 2024. Now the science fiction thriller is set to come home on physical formats via Well Go… Read More ›