Oakland 1987 is the setting for four tales that traverse the time period’s sub-cultures and film genres in the wacky sci-fi anothology Freaky Tales. Named after…
Author: Kyle Wilson
Kyle Wilson
Assistant Editor. Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. Phoenix Critics Circle member. Co-Host of the Drinks & Discourse Podcast. ASU Sun Devil. Resident DC Comics expert. Co-Founder of our previous brand: The Nerd Repository.
Opening night of the 2025 Phoenix Film Festival charmed audiences with the premiere of The Ballad of Wallis Island. Based on an award winning short film…
Self-proclaimed “really good lawyer” Matt Murdock returns to the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in the aptly named revival series Daredevil: Born Again. This time, however, the…
Robert De Niro sits atop a stacked list of impressive actors and actresses in the Netflix political thriller Zero Day in his first starring TV role.…
After nearly 40 years, a first season on YouTube Red (remember that?), and a Netflix revival later the story of Cobra Kai is coming to its…
Captain America: Brave New World is moving the MCU’s Phase Five forward while serving as the first solo big-screen adventure for Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) since…
The Phoenix Critics Circle are pleased to announce the recipients of their 2024 awards… A24’s The Brutalist stood tall with the most awards including Best Picture in a…
One of the most remarkable sports stories of all time is now one of the best films of 2024. Unstoppable is the incredible true story of…
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is riding the recent 80s nostalgia wave of the Spielberg/Amblin Entertainment family adventure era which started with the massive modern success of…
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better hit the gym! Red One is kicking off the holiday movie season with this non-traditional, machismo-filled…
Joker: Folie à Deux is the musical sequel to Joker that no one asked for, but “you get what you f’ing deserve” thanks to director Todd…
In Monster Summer, something lurks in the dark on a small East Coast island, and Noah (Mason Thawes) and his friends are bound to face the…
Agatha All Along, the song from WandaVision that you just couldn’t get out of your head in 2021, is now the title of the MCU’s latest…
Following the events of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the eight-episode DC Studios series The Penguin stars Colin Farrell (under gobs of make-up and prosthetics) reprising his…
The cleverly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice doesn’t make you say his name three times but does see Michael Keaton return to his iconic role in the long-awaited…
The titular rings in Prime Video’s mega-budget series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power began their journey to the forge at the end…
From Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs, and Ted Lasso, comes the Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey starring Vince Vaughn, adapted from Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 bestselling…
Batman: Caped Crusader is the triumphant solo return of The Dark Knight to an animated medium that defined the character for a generation in the 90s.…
Serving as both a polite goodbye to the mixed bag of Fox’s Marvel films, Deadpool & Wolverine is also a giant love letter to the character…
Almost three decades (woof) have passed since Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt darkened the skies and lit up the box office in the tornado disaster flick…
Hard to believe all those years ago when Cobra Kai premiered its unique, narrative-flipping, low-budget pilot season on the now defunct YouTube Red, fans would be…
Professional wrestling exploded in the 1980s and the Von Erich family dynasty was right at the forefront thanks to its trio of charismatic brothers and the…
The Phoenix Critics Circle are pleased to announce the recipients of their 2023 awards… A24’s Past Lives took home only one award, but it was the big one:…
Rick Riordan’s best-selling Percy Jackson book series is getting a second shot at a live-action life in the new Disney+ series Percy Jackson and The Olympians.…
Crime never rests and neither does Batman – even on Christmas. Merry Little Batman sees the Caped Crusader forced to leave his son Damian home at…
In Butcher’s Crossing, Harvard student Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) leaves his educational pursuits to explore the American frontier. When he crosses paths with Buffalo hunter Miller…
Set in a world where artificial intelligence has risen to be humanity’s ally and then unexpectedly rebels by dropping a nuclear bomb on Los Angeles, Rogue…
The new era of DC Comics movies under the watchful eye of James Gunn has yet to begin, but the last remnants of the previous regime’s…
Four baby turtles. Ooze. Mutation. Ninja Training. You know the story, but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem aims to revive the franchise with a truly…
Timothy Olyphant dons the hat and badge once more as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in FX’s revival series Justified: City Primeval. The swagger-filled action leaves the…
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to be an aging action hero and the world’s last blockbuster star to fill those now empty…
Quirky, beloved director Wes Anderson returns in Asteroid City, a film with a peculiar framing device and one of the greatest ensemble casts ever to grace…
In Marvel Studios’ new series Secret Invasion, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) makes his return to the present-day Marvel Cinematic Universe in order to prevent a…
The Lamplight Review recently took part in a virtual press conference with Oscar-Winning director Wes Anderson and the cast of his new film Asteroid City. Told…