Zeke Blakeslee

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Lead Critic for @TheCinemaSpot / Cinema. / “You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.” / “Consistency is death.” / letterboxd: https://t.co/nIfFzPg0BS

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‘Dangerous Animals’ (IFC Films/ Shudder) Non-Spoiler Review – Cooler In Conception

3 weeks ago | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. How many actors inevitably play a serial killer, or some other sociopathic character? The question is better left to ponder than actually provide an answer.
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Spoiler Review — How Much Fun Is Too Much Fun?

1 month ago | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. One of Hollywood’s crowning achievements will always be the filmmakers and the actors who bring their great stories to life. To many, producer and star Tom Cruise is hailed as the savior of modern cinema.
‎‘Manhunter’ review by Zeke • Letterboxd

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Michael Mann |Zeke Blakeslee

★★★★★ “I’ll tell you when it’s too fucking late!” “Reflections… mirrors… images.” Will Graham is a hunter, isn’t he? Not necessarily in the traditional sense, but he has an idea of what could become of three families of bodies, then four, five, and six. As with any hunter, he sees his own juxtaposition within his prey. Will wanted to be finished, but something was screaming for just one more. Similarly, the Tooth Fairy wasn’t stopping any time soon. He will have always needed just one more....
‘The Accountant 2’ Non-Spoiler Review – One Of The Decade's Best Action Sequels

1 month ago | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. Character-driven action films were hugely popular during the late 1970s and continued throughout a majority of the 1980s. Thrillers then took over in the 1990s. Recent film franchises such as John Wick and even Mission: Impossible are fantastic modern displays of the same.
‘Havoc’ Spoiler Review – Yet Another Netflix Original That’s Simply Good Enough

1 month ago | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. The Raid: Redemption is often hailed as one of the best action films of its time.
‎‘Sinners’ review by Zeke • Letterboxd

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Ryan Coogler |Zeke Blakeslee

“Sinner like me… that’s all I can ask for.”Sinners has an intriguing concept. I should probably preface that, while I did enjoy the film, I’ve many critiques too. The writing itself is, unfortunately, at best, subpar in comparison with other films of the genre. Although the film itself is wanting to be a blues film, it feels like a blues homage film wrapped within a vampire film. The film looks too orange, and the night lighting for the night scenes are somehow even more orange or slightly too dark.
‘Warfare’ (A24) Review – Perhaps The Most Effective War Film In The Last Decade

2 months ago | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. Does a film do its job if it provides no context to life’s meaning? What is the cost of life on this planet, and will we do what it takes to survive together?
‘Ash’ (RLJE/ Shudder) Non-Spoiler Review – Flying Lotus Creates An Intoxicating Sci-Fi Survival Environment

Mar 23, 2025 | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. What is the cost of memory? How far back do we actually remember? Do you linger on something silly you said in the fifth grade? Moreover, what is reality and truth? Ash is one of the year’s first great films.
‘The Rule Of Jenny Pen’ (IFC Films/ Shudder) Non-Spoiler Review – A Lackluster Attempt At Elderly Hell

Mar 4, 2025 | thecinemaspot.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Want to hear more from the actors and creators of your favorite shows and films? Subscribe to The Cinema Spot on YouTube for all of our upcoming interviews!Lead Critic for the site, as well as serving as an editor when needed. Prison films were all the rage in the 1950s through the 1970s. Cool Hand Luke (1967) starring Paul Newman and Escape from Alcatraz (1979) starring Clint Eastwood remain two of the genre’s most known examples.
‎‘Inception’ review by Zeke • Letterboxd

Feb 17, 2025 | letterboxd.com | Zeke Blakeslee

Are we sleepwalking thru this mortal coil? Do we dream when we wake? Or wake when we dream? Does any of it matter? [ is a singular film in twenty first century cinema {for me}. It works in so many ways. Every Academy Award was deserved. The film is executed in all facets. Is Cobb awake or in limbo? This is the beauty of filmmaking, isn’t it? Each viewing we can question this theory after sitting thru every maniacal frame.