Ben Pearson
Editor at /Film
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1 week ago |
slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson
I missed director Joshua Rofé's 2021 documentary about painter Bob Ross, but I absolutely devoured his three-episode true crime series "Sasquatch" a few years ago, which followed an investigative journalist on the hunt for the truth about a triple murder in the Pacific Northwest that was rumored to have been committed by Bigfoot.
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1 week ago |
slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson
Screenwriter Shane Black helped perfect the buddy action/comedy formula in the 1980s and '90s, but I'd argue that "The Nice Guys," his 2016 directorial effort that he co-wrote with Anthony Bagarozzi, is his most purely enjoyable riff on that formula. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe co-star in a 1970s-set detective mystery that's as hilarious as it is compelling, and many who have seen it have spent years clamoring for a follow-up.
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2 weeks ago |
slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson
After the aching yearning of 2023's "Past Lives," writer/director Celine Song is back with her second feature film, "Materialists." Despite there being some surface-level similarities between the two projects — they're both about a woman who is, in some ways, torn between two men — "Materialists" trades the soulful, wistful quality of her debut for something with a slightly harder edge.
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2 weeks ago |
slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson
Dan Trachtenberg is now two for two in the "Predator" franchise. His 2022 movie "Prey," which was released straight to Hulu amid the height of the streaming wars, revitalized a franchise that was flagging in the aftermath of Shane Black's messy 2018 movie "The Predator," and gave Trachtenberg the opportunity to direct another movie in that franchise called "Predator: Badlands," which is coming to theaters later this year.
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3 weeks ago |
slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson
I admittedly had doubts about "Ballerina" going in, and for the first few minutes of the movie, I was very worried. The film stumbles out of the gate, but thankfully, it eventually finds its footing and settles into a nice groove. Overall, it's not nearly as operatic as the main "John Wick" movies have become; Chad Stahelski infuses those films with such an idiosyncratic assortment of influences that they've become these epic, larger-than-life tales that sometimes feel more like myths than movies.
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