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• Spoiler-Free Review: Supernatural “Sinners” Showcases Commanding Coogler

  By Stephen Brown| Silver Screen Capture@ The auteur director behind Fruitvale Station deliriously detours from his Wakanda and Creed franchise universes for an original passion project: Sinners (A) is Ryan Coogler unleashed, a polished and imaginative production of a writer/director at the peak of his powers. There’s an extended sequence – and you’ll know what it is when you encounter it – of such accelerating atmosphere and transcendent beauty and surprise, you might feel like your mind just played tricks on you.

  By Stephen Brown · Silver Screen Capture

  Apr. 15, 2025

• Mamoa Salvages Some Comic Gold from Mid Mayhem of “A Minecraft Movie”

  By Stephen Brown| Silver Screen Capture@ Director Jared Hess, cult auteur of films such as Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, helms a high-concept studio movie based on what’s considered an “open sandbox game,” meaning he could choose his own adventure and use IP freely in the box trot of world building. Hess generally fares better in sequences set in his already off-kilter human world, even though most of the plot stays firmly planted in the cubic region.

  By Stephen Brown · Silver Screen Capture

  Apr. 04, 2025

• Hearty Foal Becomes Party Foul for Quirky “Death of a Unicorn” Denizens

  By Stephen Brown| Silver Screen Capture@ Protruding from its mythical head is a dubious “L.” A24’s anticipated creature feature debuted at South by Southwest; and in one sour swoop this mediocre movie diminished both the lure of an infallible indie studio’s track record and the lore of its buzzy film festival launchpad. A vehicular collision with a mighty beast possessing a horn of plentiful power presents complications for an ensemble of morally dubious characters in Alex Scharfman’s comic cautionary tale Death of a Unicorn (C).

  By Stephen Brown · Silver Screen Capture

  Mar. 21, 2025

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