Whether you're seeing it as a first-time viewer or revisiting the series for the hundredth time, it's easy to agree that American Pie holds a pivotal space in the teen comedy circuit as a definitive cultural artifact of the turn of the millennium, and of the genre leaning towards raunch that was previously saved for slapstick stories. Modern high school students rushing to lose their virginity is almost an unspoken established rite of age, which is why Paul Weitz's film…
Let’s be honest, two of these three stars are because Mary Elizabeth Winstead holds this movie on her back. Every generation of horror needs franchises to turn your brain off and have some fun. Final Destination is just that. Not the best installment in the franchise but no doubt plays big on either a big screen or something along the lines of what LG OLED puts out on the market.
Review by Tyler Geis
I still maintain upon a rewatch that Companion is a blast from start to finish and that it's more successful as a Coen Brothers-esque "idiots in way over their heads" dark crime comedy than it is as a "big tech" satire. Perhaps heavily emphasizing in the marketing that this was "From the Producers of Barbarian" somewhat inflated expectations, for this doesn't have the big, gear-shift twists and sense of discovery that Zach Cregger's film had, but it is still effective…
Even though I don’t 1000% love the plot, there’s no denying that this film is incredibly technically beautiful. THAT fight scene is so exhilarating and watching on an LG OLED TV in Filmmaker Mode made it even more exciting on a rewatch.
I don’t think that Leigh Whannell gets enough credit for the direction in this and The Invisible Man - two of the most interestingly shot films I’ve seen in years, and Logan Marshall Green…
The outlier of the franchise, 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Revenge, makes for a darker and grittier companion piece to the original. Despite it breaking every Freddy Krueger rule in the book, it's still fun and features one of the best practical effect gags in horror history (IYKYK). As Jesse (Mark Patton) struggles with himself, he must face his fears head-on if he has any chance of survival. Turning on LG OLED's Filmmaker mod…
With Steven Soderbergh doubling as a director and cinematographer on this film (under the name of Peter Andrews), Black Bag is yet another entry in his filmography that plays absolutely perfectly on an LG OLED TV screen. The colors and ambiance of every scene in Black Bag come off as a real treat for the eyes.
As for the plot, Soderbergh does it again with his art house avant-garde approach to taking common concepts we see…