Alex Welch

2 months ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alex Welch

The biggest movie coming to Peacock in February is arguably “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” which is set to start streaming exclusively on the platform on Valentine’s Day. As of this writing, though, the jury’s still out on whether or not that film can make up for the mistakes of 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and take the popular rom-com franchise back to its former heights.

Sep 26, 2024 | inverse.com | Alex Welch

Agatha All Along hasn't been shy about acknowledging its WandaVision roots. From its Mare of Easttown-inspired opening to its bursts of suburban humor, Marvel's latest Disney+ series has been eager to remind fans of the fun they had watching its parent show three years ago. Thanks to certain lines and moments (see: one character's assertion that Wanda Maximoff is "definitely dead"), Agatha All Along has even poked fun at the Marvel Cinematic Universe's fandom and its theory-crafting tendencies.

Sep 22, 2024 | escapistmagazine.com | Alex Welch

Like a lot of Netflix films, it feels a little bit like Rebel Ridge just came out of nowhere. That isn’t the case with the Jeremy Saulnier-directed thriller, though. On the contrary, the film’s early September debut was a long, long time in the making. There was a six-year gap between the release of Rebel Ridge and Jeremy Saulnier’s previous film, 2018’s Hold the Dark. The long wait wasn’t intentional. As a matter of fact, Saulnier actually finished writing the script for Rebel Ridge in 2018.

Sep 22, 2024 | inverse.com | Alex Welch

As far as movie tie-in shows and franchise spin-offs go, The Penguin is a lot more successful than it has any right to be. Picking up a week after the events of The Batman, the HBO series follows its eponymous criminal (a still-unrecognizable Colin Farrell) as he tries to climb up the criminal underworld's ladder and claim the top spot left open by his former boss, Carmine Falcone.

Sep 20, 2024 | inverse.com | Alex Welch

How do you make the cosmic seem personal? When a film is dealing with matters of potentially galaxy-sized importance, it's imperative that it also grounds its story in recognizable, relatable emotions. Otherwise, you end up with a movie that is big but hollow. That may seem like an obvious problem to try to avoid, but many sci-fi films nonetheless fail to do so. There are only a small number of movies that succeed at that. Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is one. James Gray's Ad Astra is another.