Movies – Vertical
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Mank – Film Review
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the script for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. David Fincher’s Mank should by all accounts be one of the greatest movies of the entire year. Citizen Kane is one of the greatest movies of all-time and is…
- 2026
Citizen Kane – Film Review
When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Though Kane’s friend and colleague Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), and his mistress, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), shed fragments of light on…
- 2026
Playhouse – Film Review
After an irreverent playwright moves into a Scottish castle to develop a horror production, his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls. One would be forgiven if they took a quick glance at the poster for Fionn and Toby Watts’ Playhouse and thought it looked rather terrible. Everything about it comes across as…
- 2026
All My Life – Film Review
While All My Life can have a little bit of a problem with familiarity, it’s not a big deal because of how emotionally powerful and thought-provoking the whole thing is in the grand scheme of things.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare – Film Review
Satan has a farmhouse showdown with the righteous lead singer (Jon Mikl Thor) of a heavy metal band. John Fasano’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare is absolutely, one-hundred-percent, one of those movies that is so bad that it’s good. On practically every level imaginable, this movie fails at everything. Its script is basically non-existent. Its characters are nothing…
- 2026