gramatune online Magazine Rock World News
What an America in collapse would look like is the focus of Alex Garland’s apolitical dystopia.
Civil War Dispassionately Reports On The Last Days of America: Review
Clint Worthington
The Pitch: In a nonspecific dystopian future, Alex Garland’s Civil War presumes a kind of societal breakdown that, on its face, seems silly: A tripartite secession from the United States on the part of the “Western Forces of Texas and California” and the “Florida Alliance,” among others. The President (Nick Offerman) offers…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
War never changes, and neither does the spirit of Prime’s faithful video game adaptation.
Amazon Sets the World On Fire With Its Great Gory Take on Fallout: Review
Clint Worthington
The Pitch: It’s two-hundred-some years after an alternate version of Earth has nuked itself to bits: most of the world is an irradiated wasteland filled with ghouls and monsters of varying stripes. The only real humans left out there are the Brotherhood of Steel — a techno-military cult dedicated to preserving…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
Duneheads are in for a wild ride, if Denis Villeneuve stays close to Frank Herbert’s books.
What Will Happen in Dune: Part Three… and Beyond?
Clint Worthington
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Dune: Part Two, as well as the second, third, and other books in the Dune series.] With the release (and almost universally positive reception) of Dune: Part Two, fans of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel can finally breathe easy knowing that Denis Villeneuve’s sprawling,…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
Amid all its sci-fi calculations, Netflix’s latest big-budget book adaptation loses its humanity.
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem Shoots for the Stars But Stays Depressingly Earthbound: Review
Clint Worthington
The Pitch: In mainland China in 1996, a young physicist watches her father get beaten to death in a struggle session during the Cultural Revolution. In 2024 London, a surly intelligence officer named Clarence (Benedict Wong) investigates the mysterious deaths of prominent figures in the scientific community — including the mentor…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
Director Shinji Ito tells the story of her own trauma in this riveting tale of resilience.
Black Box Diaries Review: A Journalist Bravely Fights for Justice in Uncompromising #MeToo Doc
Clint Worthington
This review is part of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: “Close your eyes and take a deep breath if you need to.” This disclaimer, written in gentle cursive in the opening seconds of documentary Black Box Diaries, is journalist and filmmaker Shiori Ito’s empathetic content warning to…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
A powerful breakout performance from Lily Collias anchors this small, delicate indie.
Sundance Review: Good One Tests The Limits of Familial Trust
Clint Worthington
This review is part of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: Sam (Lily Collias) is wise beyond her years, a 17-year-old girl with a solid head on her shoulders and an innate ability to notice and observe those around her. She’s set to go on a three-day…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
Theda Hammel’s acerbic queer comedy stars John Early, crumbling under the stress of COVID and other issues.
Stress Positions Puts John Early In the Middle of Pandemic Hell: Review
Clint Worthington
This review is part of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. It has been republished for its theatrical release in New York. The Pitch: It’s the summer of 2020, and Terry Goon (John Early) is just trying to do his very best. He’s depressed, slovenly, a gay man in…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
2024’s first great season of television is already here.
True Detective: Night Country Review: An Invigorating Reinvention of HBO’s Hit Crime Series
Clint Worthington
The Pitch: At the end of every year in the small Alaskan town of Ennis, the sun sets for a weeks-long period in which the sun sets entirely from mid-December to after the new year. In that darkness hides all manner of things: corruption, sin, violence, and memories we’d just as…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
The new rom-com is a calorie-free destination romance designed to go down easy.
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney Coast Through the Rom-Com Anyone But You: Review
Clint Worthington
The Pitch: It’s your classic love story: chiseled-jaw stockbroker Ben (Glen Powell) meet-cutes flibbertigibbet law student Bea (Sydney Sweeney) in a coffee shop one day, leading to a beautiful day of casual walks through the park, sizzling conversation (and grilled cheese sandwiches), and a cozy night falling asleep just talking, you guys.…
Please click the link below to read the full article.
Zack Snyder’s underbaked riff on Star Wars and Seven Samurai, featuring every sci-fi influence under the sun.
Zack Snyder Offers a Slick But Derivative Sci-Fi Epic in Part 1 of Rebel Moon: Review
Clint Worthington
The Pitch: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… an evil empire led by a dastardly villain (Ed Skrein) hunts down the last vestiges of a growing rebellion, fueled by the death of their godlike emperor. One such outer world that must be brought to heel is a…
Please click the link below to read the full article.