One year ago, Avengers: Infinity War accomplished the unthinkable as a decade of storytelling in the Marvel Cinematic Universe coalesced into a thrilling, action-packed climax. In…
Author: Brent Hankins
Brent Hankins
Brent Hankins has been blogging and writing film reviews online since 2011. He joined the Phoenix Film Critics Society in 2013, and was a founding member of the Phoenix Critics Circle the following year, where he currently serves as President. Brent also hosted the weekly Drinks and Discourse podcast for nearly 5 years, and is currently the editor-in-chief at The Lamplight Review. He resides in Tempe, AZ with his wife and son.
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New musical Stuck, directed by Michael Berry and adapted from the stage production of the stage name, purports to teach us that we should look beyond…
Louise Brooks was an icon of the Jazz Age, a trendsetting star of the silent screen whose bob hairstyle and short skirts became synonymous with the…
Like the other residents of Little Woods, North Dakota, Oleander “Ollie” King (Tessa Thompson) does what she needs to survive. In the past, this has included…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger fan of William Shakespeare than Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh: for thirty years, he’s been directing (and occasionally starring…
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The 2019 Phoenix Festival gets underway this week, kicking off ten days of programming with a lineup that includes a few Sundance hits, some old favorites…
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TEMPE — Less than five months after their last appearance, Crown the Empire returned to the Marquee Theater on Friday for a co-headlining show with We…
TEMPE — Post-hardcore outfit We Came as Romans returned to Arizona on Friday night, performing at the Marquee Theater as part of their co-headlining tour with…
Over the past few years, Walt Disney Studios has taken a number of characters and stories from their animated classics and updated them for modern audiences…
Country music superstar Garth Brooks returned to the Valley on Saturday night with a sold-out show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. The capacity crowd…
The doom and gloom of the DC Extended Universe’s first few efforts is beginning to feel like a distant memory, and the course correction that began…
The past few years have sparked something of a resurgence in music biopics, with Hollywood tackling subjects ranging from Beach Boys genius Brian Wilson (Love and…
Sketch comedy star Jordan Peele shocked the world with his 2017 directorial debut Get Out, a brilliant undertaking that was equal parts thriller, comedy and social…
Making an engaging film about the mundane details of Wall Street trading is no easy feat. Adam McKay managed to pull it off with 2015’s The…
Taking a break from its ongoing quest to update each of its classic animated films into live-action/CG hybrids, Walt Disney Studios dusts off another iconic character…
“I don’t have many secrets,” says Elizabeth Holmes in the opening moments of Alex Gibney’s riveting new documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.…
In a crowded, dimly lit Tokyo club, a guitarist rips through nearly three hours of Led Zeppelin covers. But the versions of “Stairway to Heaven” and…
Despite a whopping twenty films under its banner, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a bit late to the party when it comes to showcasing their female…
Ask a random person on the street if they can name a WWE Superstar, and their response would likely be a name like John Cena or…
ANAHEIM — Couples who elected to spend Valentine’s Day at the Honda Center with Panic! at the Disco were treated to an extravagant, high-energy arena rock…
Many of us can recall someone older (and allegedly wiser) telling us that our teenage years would be the best of our lives, and that nothing…
The Nightingale, Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to her 2014 horror hit The Babadook, is far removed from the supernatural scares of her previous work. Yet this tale…
A rumination on the dangers of zealotry and blind devotion to faith, Them That Follow centers on Mara (Alice Englert), a young woman from the Appalachian…
Little Monsters opens with a series of arguments between Dave (Alexander England) and his longtime girlfriend, the last of which results in him moving in with…
Veteran documentarian Joe Berlinger — best known for the Paradise Lost trilogy, covering the arrest, incarceration and eventual release of the West Memphis Three — returns…
GLENDALE — After five decades of live performances, Elton John is hanging up his sequined jackets and oversized sunglasses, but not before making one final lap around the world.
Stieg Larsson may not quite be a household name, but anyone privileged enough to have read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will certainly recognize the…
When the final moments of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split revealed that the events of the film took place in the same universe as the director’s 2000…
MESA — Every Time I Die rolled into Club Red for the latest stop on their “20 Years of Bullshit” tour, and the metal legends wasted no time whipping the crowd into a frenzy.
Far removed from the intimate and introspective dramatic efforts like Hunger and Shame that began his directorial career, or the Oscar-winning historical tale 12 Years a…
It’s a shame that David Fincher never had the opportunity to continue the story of Lisbeth Salander after his excellent remake of The Girl with The…