Brent Leuthold
Whatzup Features Writer
Articles
‘Infinity Pool’ could put viewers in over heads
Infinity Pool, the new nightmare vision from Possessor writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, finds itself at the intersection of two thematic landscapes that have captured the zeitgeist as of late. Hit shows […]
Familial bond missing from new thriller
A spiritual sequel, of sorts, to 2018’s Searching, the new thriller Missing stars Storm Reid as June Allen, a bright but troubled teen who has butted heads with her mom, Grace […]
Narcissism at center of indie film
Playing at Cinema Center this weekend, the indie dramedy When You Finish Saving the World stars Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard as Ziggy Katz, a high school student desperately trying to […]
Better writing could help dull doll thriller
Dolls are creepy. Between the lifeless porcelain-eyed gaze and the unnatural permanent smile, it’s no surprise that filmmakers have gotten plenty of mileage from including them in horror movies for […]
Counting down top movies of 2022
Audiences slowly, but surely, began venturing back out to theaters worldwide in 2022, giving the movie industry a much needed bounce back after the pandemic shut things down the prior […]
Whodunit sequel exceeds predecessor
After delivering a modern whodunit classic with Knives Out a few years ago, writer/director Rian Johnson captures lightning in a bottle again with Glass Onion, a murder-mystery whose delights somehow […]
Acclaimed director swings, misses
After winning Academy awards for Best Director back-to-back years for Birdman and The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu had doors open to him in terms of what project to pursue next. […]
‘Pinocchio’ gets del Toro treatment
There have been numerous cinematic adaptations of Carlo Collodi’s children’s book The Adventures of Pinocchio over the years, so perhaps it was inevitable that two would arrive in the same […]
Spielberg turns camera on himself
On a 1999 episode of his revered series Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton asked Steven Spielberg about a connection that he saw between Spielberg’s parents and a moment in […]