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Brent Leuthold

Brent Leuthold

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Michelle Rodriguez and Chris Pine star in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

‘Dungeons’ brings fun of game to screen

Despite being based on a role-playing game that’s been around almost 50 years that is more popular now than ever, Dungeons & Dragons hasn’t been well-served in the realm of […]
Shazam! Fury of the Gods stars, from left, Adam Brody, Grace Caroline Currey, Zachary Levi, Meagan Good, and D.J. Cotrona.

DC can’t recapture lightning in bottle

Let’s start with a confession: I was wrong about 2019’s Shazam! After rewatching the movie last weekend, I stand by some of the quibbles from my original two-star review — […]
Carrie Coon, left, and Keira Knightley star in Boston Strangler, which will be streaming on Hulu on March 17.

Hulu true-crime drama is worth your time

In 1968, there was the release of The Boston Strangler, a crime film loosely based on the real-life serial killer at the center of 13 still-unresolved slayings that decade. The […]
Creed III stars, from left, Michael B. Jordan, Mila Davis-Kent, and Tessa Thompson.

Third film in series follows winning formula

When Ryan Coogler rebooted the Rocky series in 2015 with Creed, it brought a much-needed level of excitement to the stalled franchise and introduced a formidable new pugilist protagonist to […]
Emma Mackey and Fionn Whitehead star in Emily.

Too many liberties taken in pseudo-biopic

Australian actress Frances O’Connor makes her directorial and writing debut with Emily, a pseudo-biopic about revered writer Emily Brontë that intentionally fudges the facts surrounding the 19th century author.  Though […]
Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), left, and Kang The Conquerer (Jonathan Majors) square off in the latest entry in the MCU, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quanumania.

New supervillian introduced into MCU

Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets off to a fun start with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, the third and likely final standalone for the Avenger named after […]
The upcoming Apple TV+ film Sharper stars Briana Middleton and Justice Smith.

Film about con artists only fools itself

Streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, Feb. 17, the new psychological thriller Sharper is a movie about con artists that cons itself into thinking it’s sharper than it really is.  […]
Knock at the Cabin stars, from left, Dave Bautista, Abby Quinn, and Nikki Amuka-Bird.

Thriller struggles to keep suspense

Due to the overwhelming popularity of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan has been pigeonholed as a director whose films always have a twist ending.  While some of […]
Alexander Skarsgård stars as a struggling novelist in the horror film "Infinity Pool."

‘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 […]