Brent Leuthold
Whatzup Features Writer
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Invest your time into ‘Dumb Money’
The always whip-fast and sometimes whip-smart finance comedy Dumb Money opens with a definition of its title: A term for what Wall Street investors call amateur day traders looking to […]

Raunchy comedy does not hold back
Shiva Baby writer and director Emma Seligman teams back up with its star Rachel Sennott for Bottoms, another sex comedy that’s paradoxically weirder and somehow more mainstream than Seligman’s 2020 […]

Not all trilogies are created equal
When it comes to Hollywood math, having just one sequel doesn’t quite square the equation. So, nine years after vigilante actioner The Equalizer, we have a trilogy capper in the form […]

Video game movie is a car crash
Sony takes another shot at adapting a popular PlayStation series for the big screen with Gran Turismo, a stock sports biopic to go along with their stock action-adventure Uncharted from […]

New Dracula tale sucks your will to live
Earlier this year, the boisterous action comedy Renfield reimagined what the world of a modern-day Dracula might look like through the eyes of his beleaguered assistant. Though the film comes […]

‘Theater Camp’ hits comedic marks
Adapted from a 2020 short film of the same name, the laugh-out-loud Theater Camp considers what Waiting for Guffman would look like if it attended Tairy Greene’s Acting Seminar for […]

A24 misses mark with latest horror film
Back in April, Evil Dead Rise brought its respective franchise back from a lengthy hiatus for more gruesome thrills at the hands of demonic entities and possessed persons alike. At […]

Biopic will leave you on edge of seat
Christopher Nolan has often spoken of the influence fellow British director David Lean has had on his films. But the careers of the filmmakinggiants are continuing to mirror one another […]

Latest ‘Mission’ doesn’t quite live up to hype
When Mission: Impossible — Fallout was released in 2018, many immediately heralded it as a new apex for the long-running action spy franchise and one that would be difficult to […]