Jeremiah Sherman

Bakersfield

Co-Host at Beneath the Screen of the Ultra-Critics

Film critic for The Fandomentals. Full time Royals/Dodgers Fan. Also the resident expert on Columbo. He/Him pronouns. https://t.co/MnghMSgso5

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'The Surfer' Catches Some Waves But Never Finds the Big One

4 days ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

The Surfer is an effective movie, filled with a visceral and tactile aesthetic that will leave you squirming in your seat. However, once the movie is over, the mood evaporates. It never gets under your skin and sticks to your insides. Still, Lorc Finnegan has made a gorgeous, sumptuous, and for the most part, riveting film about toxic masculinity.
'Thunderbolts*' Has Heart and Sometimes Even a Little Style

1 week ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

Let’s get one thing clear at the jump: I liked Thunderbolts*. It falls apart towards the end, and the needs of the franchise require it to make some emotional sacrifices. But I was never all that bored, and at one point I found myself crying. The most popular MCU films tend to be little more than tediously entertaining, but Thunderbolts* is often flat-out entertaining.
'The Wedding Banquet' Blends Found Family and Rom-Coms

2 weeks ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

If you’ve ever wanted a Queer romantic dramedy starring Lily Gladstone and Kelly Marie Tran, directed by Andrew Ahn, one of the best directors working today, then is today you’re lucky day. Mine too, because I also love those things!The Wedding Banquet is a remake of the 1993 Ang Lee movie of the same name. Ahn and his co-writer James Schamus, the co-writer and producer of the original, update the story for 2025.
'Sinners' is an Unwieldy, Haunting, Hypnotic Tale

3 weeks ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

Ryan Coogler has quietly become one of the most reliable and exciting blockbuster directors working today. More so than, say, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer aside, to quote Walter Chaw, “There’s not there, there.” Coogler at all times, takes what he did with Fruitvale Station and blows it up for the mass audiences. He takes what has become an exercise of neutered artistic expression for the mythical four quadrants and makes intimate dramas that explode with emotion, action, and visuals.
The Feet Talk in 'Unbound' Gets Inside Your Head

1 month ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

If you are like me, you spend your life avoiding thinking about feet. Nothing against foot fetishists; I just don’t get it. The only time I think about my own feet is when they hurt. This is why Becky Hunter’s documentary short, Unbound, intrigued me. Like most curious people, I am often fascinated by other people’s fascinations. Hunter’s obsession is counterintuitive to mine, which makes it interesting.
'The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie' Does the Looney Name Proud

1 month ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

Did you know there’s a new Looney Tunes movie out right now? Because there is, and it’s funny, weird, and zany in modern and old-school ways. It’s also a return to hand-drawn animation that mixes up the styles, giving the film a visual kick lacking in many mainstream animation films. Granted, the title seems almost embarrassed it’s a Looney Tunes movie: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie.
'Mickey 17' Predicts A Stupid and Dystopian Future

2 months ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

It’s tempting to call Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, Mickey 17, a minor work. But only because his last film, Parasite, was a cultural and box office hit. It was a film so rooted in the human experience of living in the modern world that it resonated with audiences, as if Bong had been whispering right into our ear the very observations we had noted ourselves. But with his latest, Mickey 17, Bong is looking forward to the future and, like many of us, doesn’t like what he sees.
'Sing Sing' Seeks Humanity in the Dehumanized

2 months ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

Prison movies like Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing are a dime a dozen. Artists traffic in empathy, and only a fool can look at the carceral system as it stands and think it is anything other than a force of penalizing evil. So, their films often depict the brutality and horrors of prison life while mixing in some harrowing melodrama.
'You're Cordially Invited' Leaves Us at the Altar

2 months ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

I’m not going to front and say the rom-com isn’t in trouble. Hallmark, Lifetime, and other cable channels are finding an economic boon with the genre, and Sydney Sweeney’s Anyone But You made bank, but in the sense of vehicles for major stars, we’re in a lot of trouble. Part of this is because no one has chemistry anymore. After all, the casting process has been cannibalized to bypass any screen or chemistry tests and instead rely on social media follower count.
Josh Cox's 'Muse' Transplants the Gothic to New York

2 months ago | thefandomentals.com | Jeremiah Sherman

It’s always interesting to see a director try something new. Josh Cox’s movies are often filled with romance and bittersweet melancholy. His camera is a tool to scrape out a feeling, a tactile sense memory of a time and place. But with Muse he embraces genre filmmaking, the horror genre, to put a fine point on it.