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Ethan Coen brings back B-movie with ‘Honey, Don’t’
Gillespie Life, Movies
Ethan Coen brings back B-movie with ‘Honey, Don’t’
Cinematic Considerations By Matt Ward 
August 27, 2025
The smaller budgets and genre-focused nature of B-movies have relegated them to streaming services rather than theaters. These films might have appeared at a double feature screening in the 1950s or 1960s. Now, the on-demand video platforms are populated with new releases of B movies every weekend. ...
Sweeney, Hauser shine in modern Western ‘Americana’
Gillespie Life, Movies
Sweeney, Hauser shine in modern Western ‘Americana’
BY MATT WARD 
August 20, 2025
Cinematic Considerations The modern-day anthology “Americana,” which evokes both the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, should have had fervent box office potential for adult audiences who will flock to theaters this fall for heavier dramatic fare. After acquiring first-time director Tony Tost’s W...
Monsters come to life in ‘Sketch’, a family friendly dramedy
Gillespie Life, Movies
Monsters come to life in ‘Sketch’, a family friendly dramedy
BY MATT WARD 
August 13, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Ayoung girl’s notebook filled with her bizarre, shocking and violent drawings is dropped into a mysterious pond that brings these drawings to life is the premise of “Sketch.” These drawings transformed into monsters that terrorize the town in physical and real manifestations...
Happy Gilmore 2 is a swing and a miss
Gillespie Life, Movies
Happy Gilmore 2 is a swing and a miss
BY MATT WARD 
August 6, 2025
Cinematic Considerations It’s an ambitious gamble to resurrect a beloved 1990s comedy for a sequel nearly three decades later. Netflix, in a decade lo...
‘Fantastic Four’ reboot for Marvel fails to stand out
Gillespie Life, Movies
‘Fantastic Four’ reboot for Marvel fails to stand out
BY MATT WARD 
July 30, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Director Matt Shakman’s feature-film debut leans into vintage 1960s nostalgia that includes the early space race and a Brady ...
‘Eddington’ is a bold new take on pandemic
Gillespie Life, Movies
‘Eddington’ is a bold new take on pandemic
BY MATT WARD 
July 23, 2025
The head-scratching that audiences will undoubtedly do at every turn in Ari Aster’s fourth drama, “Eddington” is not only meant to challenge their exp...
DC is back with summer blockbuster Superman
Gillespie Life, Movies
DC is back with summer blockbuster Superman
BY MATT WARD 
July 16, 2025
Cinematic Considerations James Gunn’s “Superman” is almost everything one might want out of a comic book movie. The iconography, nostalgia and altruis...
Jurassic World: Rebirth is all roar, no chomp
Gillespie Life, Movies
Jurassic World: Rebirth is all roar, no chomp
BY MATT WARD 
July 9, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Jonathan Bailey’s character in the latest installment of the “Jurassic Park” franchise laments how people used to come out in...
All gas, no brakes: ‘F1’ puts audiences behind wheel
Gillespie Life, Movies
All gas, no brakes: ‘F1’ puts audiences behind wheel
BY MATT WARD 
July 2, 2025
Cinematic Considerations Director Joseph Kosinski, best known for his massively popular nostalgia sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” returns to the world of ...
DreamWorks limps into live-action with ‘Train Your Dragon’
Gillespie Life, Movies
DreamWorks limps into live-action with ‘Train Your Dragon’
BY MATT WARD 
June 25, 2025
Cinematic Considerations DreamWorks tapped Dean DeBlois, co-director of the original animated film, into directing a live action version of their crit...
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