After multiple disappointing entries over the past couple of decades, you wouldn’t expect the latest installment of the Terminator franchise to warrant much excitement. But unlike…
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.
Taika Waititi’s latest effort, the World War II comedy Jojo Rabbit, follows a young Nazi devotee who discovers that his mother has been hiding a teenage…
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Much of the buzz surrounding Ang Lee’s Gemini Man has focused on the revolutionary new technology that allows for Will Smith to face off against a…
Todd Phillips’ Joker has been courting controversy since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it took home the prestigious Golden Lion award. But while…
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The Fast and Furious franchise has always enjoyed a somewhat tenuous relationship with the laws of physics, and that relationship has grown more strained with each…
As Quentin Tarantino lurches ever closer to his self-imposed maximum of ten films — an arbitrary limit meant to ensure the revered writer and director hangs…
Marvel Studios made their triumphant return to San Diego Comic-Con this year with a massive 90-minute presentation in Hall H, where studio chief Kevin Feige announced…
Hot on the heels of Fear the Walking Dead San Diego Comic-Con panel, AMC’s original zombie series The Walking Dead also held a discussion with the…
AMC’s hit series Fear the Walking Dead returned to San Diego Comic Con’s Hall H this year for a discussion with the cast and creative team…
With the end of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on the horizon — next year’s seventh season was recently confirmed as the last — the cast and…
In the void left behind by Game of Thrones, cable networks are searching far and wide for the next great fantasy series, and His Dark Materials,…
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Four years after a subway bomb claimed the lives of 23 people in Copenhagen, right-wing extremism is not only on the rise, it’s quickly becoming mainstream…
When a meek, anxiety ridden accountant is accosted by a motorcycle gang en route from the grocery store, he joins a local karate dojo to learn…
25 years after the release of The Lion King, one of the most successful animated films of all time and arguably the pinnacle of the “Disney…
An unapologetic throwback to the R-rated action comedies of the 1980s, Stuber finds hulking, vengeful narcotics detective Vic (Dave Bautista) hijacking a mild-mannered Uber driver named…
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As Avengers: Endgame prepares for a brief re-release at the box office this weekend — a move that seems destined to propel it to the highest-grossing…
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