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…
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.
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…
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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…
The Fantasia International Film Festival celebrates its 23rd Anniversary in Montreal this month, with nearly three full weeks of screenings and a lineup that boasts more…
Ari Aster turned heads and churned stomachs with his 2018 horror offering Hereditary, an unflinching examination of grief through a particularly unsettling lens that also boasts…
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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Disney may be enjoying the box office success of the updated Aladdin, but the House of Mouse still known how to monetize their classic catalog. This…
A heart-wrenching chronicle of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, new documentary 5B gets its title from the ward of the same name, established at San…
Fans of the Toy Story series have long been apprehensive about the notion of a fourth installment. The series had seemingly wrapped up on such a…
If you had told me the onscreen pairing of Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, who showcased tremendous comedic chemistry in Thor: Ragnarok, would scarcely elicit a…
When Emmy Award-winning talk show host Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) finds herself on the verge of being replaced by a smug young standup (Ike Barinholtz) whose…
When 20th Century Fox first plucked the X-Men from the pages of Marvel comic books and thrust them onto theater screens around the world, no one…
The notion of condensing Elton John’s storied 50-year career into a two-hour film seems like an insurmountable task, one that could only lead to failure. Thankfully,…
I was largely a fan of the 2014 Godzilla reboot, thanks in no small part to the efforts of director Gareth Edwards, who eschewed the big-budget…
When HBO’s acclaimed Western drama Deadwood signed off in 2006 at the end of its third season, the cliffhanger ending seemed to promise plenty of bloodshed…
Let’s get this out of the way right from the beginning: as the exuberant magic wielder in Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin, Will Smith is perfectly…
A hilarious story about a pair of overachievers trying to party with the cool kids at the end of their senior year, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart is…
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A period drama about the early years of the celebrated author who penned The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien stars Nicholas Hoult as…
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