Brent Leuthold
Whatzup Features Writer
Articles
Action-comedy rises to the occasion
Last summer, Ryan Gosling manifested Kenergy for the blockbuster phenomenon Barbie. This year, he’s doing his part to kick off the summer movie season with the similarly hilarious The Fall […]
Follow the bouncing ball in love triangle
When I first saw that Challengers, the latest from Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino, was being presented in IMAX, I admit to being thrown off balance a bit. After all, this […]
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 […]