Brent Leuthold
Whatzup Features Writer
Articles

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 […]

Disappointing end to horror franchise
After stalling out with a pair of tenuously related prequels, the Insidious franchise inevitably returns to the original family that scared up millions of dollars at the box office almost […]

Indiana Jones turns back the clock
When George Lucas developed the Indiana Jones character, his quests were meant to mimic the rousing movie serials from his childhood in the 1940s. Now that Raiders of the Lost […]

Anderson adds substance to style
Wes Anderson is the type of director whose work is so firmly situated in the cultural consciousness that even those who have only seen one or two of his films […]

Raunch-com tries to revive genre
The predictable but reliably funny sex comedy No Hard Feelings stars Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie, a thirty-something Uber driver who’s in a bit of a pickle after her car is […]