After spending the bulk of the past decade portraying an assortment of freaks, weirdos and goofballs – with a few notable exceptions – Johnny Depp is finally…
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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After premiering on FX last year and garnering numerous accolades from television critics – including the moniker “the perfect love story of our time” – You’re the…
Films with a post-apocalyptic setting tend to be cut from the same mold, but Z for Zachariah is the second film I’ve viewed this week that…
With more than 200 TV and film credits to his name, veteran actor Michael Ironside has one of the most recognizable faces – and voices – in…
I can still vividly remember walking the few blocks from my childhood home to the local mom-and-pop video store, a crappy little concrete building where the…
From the opening moments, where Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart exhale huge clouds of pot smoke that were obviously added in post-production by a budget-friendly VFX…
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Before Corey Stoll was trading jabs – both physical and verbal – with Paul Rudd in this summer’s Ant-Man, he was trying to warn the citizens…
As a nerdy white kid growing up in small-town Indiana, I wasn’t exposed to a lot of rap music – basically, if an artists wasn’t featured…
FX’s hit vampire drama The Strain continues to bring plenty of thrills and chills to the small screen on Sunday nights, and star Miguel Gomez is…
One of 2014’s best cinematic offerings was Gone Girl, an engrossing mystery with a stellar cast, helmed by one of my favorite directors. The film was…
The first family of the Marvel Universe is taking another crack at big screen stardom with the new Fantastic Four reboot, from the visionary director of Chronicle, Josh…
The 2015 Phoenix Film Festival was a huge success, boasting submissions from a wide variety of talented filmmakers, as well as special screenings of some of…
The second season of FX’s hit vampire series The Strain is underway, and in addition to bringing back old favorites we’ve also been introduced to Justine Feraldo,…
Tom Cruise is a man on a mission to prove he’s still a relevant international action star after a string of box office disappointments. Mission: Impossible…
In 1983, Clark Griswold and his family set out on a cross-country journey to the most magical of vacation destinations: Walley World, a near-mythical California theme…
Guillermo del Toro’s vampire drama The Strain boasted big ratings numbers during it first season on FX, offering a unique spin on the vampire mythos backed…
Acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) steps into the ring with Southpaw, a modern boxing redemption tale. The script comes from the brutal mind of Sons…
After a nearly decade-long development period, creative differences which saw original writer and director Edgar Wright depart just months before shooting was scheduled to begin, and last-minute…
A decade ago, Denis Leary and FX were synonymous with each other, thanks to Leary’s critically acclaimed series Rescue Me that helped establish the network as…
The Nerd Repository team is in San Diego to cover Comic-Con 2015. We’ll be on-hand with photos, interviews, and live coverage of the hottest panels and…
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After performing in front of a sold out crowd last year, the SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque Tour is returning to San Diego Comic-Con for another seductive evening.…
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Most of the time when we see geeks and geek culture represented on film or television, we get a narrow-minded stereotype, a caricature that the general…
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was the breakout hit of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, following in the footsteps of last year’s Whiplash by…