Brent Leuthold
Whatzup Features Writer
Articles
Ballerina keeps bandits on their toes
Abigail is a movie that will play very differently for those who know nothing about it going in versus those who enter the theater having seen a trailer or ad […]
Meaning behind ‘Civil War’ up to viewer
To describe what Civil War is, it may be more helpful to first describe what it is not. It’s not a movie that’s interested in moralizing about how the United […]
Dev Patel’s action film packs a punch
fter an outstanding turn in 2021’s The Green Knight, Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with the visceral action vehicle Monkey Man, in which he also stars and co-write the […]
Unleveled storytelling hurts blockbuster
In divisive times, it’s heartening to know that even the most gargantuan of monsters are able to put their differences aside and come together for the greater good. Case in […]
New horror movie is far from perfect
In 2021’s The Voyeurs, writer and director Michael Mohan mined the depths of trashy ’90s erotic thrillers to create his own take on the subgenre and almost pulled it off. […]
Leads are a knockout in love story
Last month, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls had a very brief theatrical run as a light-hearted queer romance that was zany and even cartoony at points. This month, we have Love […]
Hard to imagine a worse horror film
Blumhouse made almost $300 million last fall with the sinister bear-fronted Five Nights at Freddy’s, and they returned to theaters on Oscars weekend with another bear in mind. The would-be […]
‘Dune: Part Two’ builds on storytelling
For retroactive clarity, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One was originally due to come out November 2020, but got pushed almost a year, debuting October 2021 in theaters and on HBO Max […]
Ethan Coen goes it alone on comedy
When the Coen Brothers decided to amicably part ways in 2018 following their co-directed Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen chose to veer into the Shakespearean route […]