Taylor Blake

1 week ago | zekefilm.org | Taylor Blake

DIRECTOR: JONATHAN ENTWISTLE/2025Like The Karate Kid Parts II and III, Karate Kid: Legends opens with a historical recap, this time to revisit a key scene from Part II. In Okinawa, teenage Daniel LaRusso’s mentor and best friend Mr. Miyagi is explaining how his family learned karate in China and brought it to Japan. But unlike we saw in 1986, Legends retcons the end of story, clarifying the Miyagis learned kung fu from the Han family then modified it to become the karate they practice today.

1 week ago | zekefilm.org | Taylor Blake

DIRECTOR: LAURA PIANI/2025Like many a Jane Austen heroine, Agathe believes she is past her prime. Chronically single, unable to finish any novel she starts, and still reeling from a major loss, she feels stuck. Then an unexpected letter arrives while on shift at the famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris: She has been accepted to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England.

3 weeks ago | zekefilm.org | Taylor Blake

DIRECTOR: JAKE SCHREIER/2025On the way home from Thunderbolts*, I had a realization: This is just a soap opera. Maybe it’s because my sister mentioned Sebastian Stan played a recurring role on Gossip Girl or maybe it’s because the post-credits scene revealed—don’t worry, not a spoiler!—a rift in a longstanding relationship we will explore in the future.

1 month ago | zekefilm.org | Taylor Blake

DIRECTOR: PAUL FEIG/2025Can something be deeply stupid if it knows it? The short story “Flowers for Algernon” suggests self-awareness of one’s intelligence requires some level of it to begin with, but it also operates on the belief those with intelligence will use it for self-advancement. Though decked out in lush floral arrangements Algernon would envy, Another Simple Favor undercuts that assumption, operating with sentience but with little aspiration.

1 month ago | zekefilm.org | Taylor Blake

DIRECTOR: GAVIN O’CONNOR/2025It’s been nearly a decade since we were first introduced to The Accountant, and it’s been almost as long since he and his brother have made time for a family reunion. Then again, saying they’ve “made time” gives them too much credit. Though the events of 2016’s The Accountant brought Christian (Ben Affleck) and Braxton (Jon Bernthal) together for the first time as adults, they fell into the classic adult problem of not finding time to keep up with their relationships.