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The Infiltrator can’t escape the shadow of Walter White

July 14, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Without a Walter White, what is the point of this dull affair?

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Bryan Cranston, Forest Lewis, Infiltrator, movies, Reviews

Michael Bay, Donald Trump and the bro-fantasy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

June 3, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Smug Michael Bay returns.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Forest Lewis, movies, Reviews, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A Mute Tilda Swinton Shines in A Bigger Splash

May 20, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Tilda Swinton immortal space goddess, scion of David Bowie, wafting divinity and musk, descends from Shangri La down here to meat-space to offer gifts of beatitude. I believe it. And I think Tilda does too. There a few movie stars who somehow manifest capital C Celebrity, as if they were a literal star, a celestial […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: A Bigger Splash, Forest Lewis, Reviews, Tilda Swinton

Keanu, Key and Peele, and the Fluidity of Race

April 29, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

For Key and Peele, ‘blackness’ is a fairly abstract concept.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Forest Lewis, Keanu, Key and Peele, Reviews

The Jungle Book: a CGI marvel and giddy adventure

April 15, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Escaping the uncanny valley with human animal hybrids

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Forest Lewis, Reviews, The Jungle Book

Demolition: Schadenfreude the Gyllenhaal way

April 8, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Life is complicated. Smash it with a sledgehammer.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Demolition, Forest Lewis, Jake Gylenhaal, Reviews

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot tries to make the War in Afghanistan Funny. Fails.

March 4, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Tina Fey just isn’t Tina Fey enough

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: 30 Rock, Forest Lewis, Kim Barker, Tina Fey, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Apocalypse Cow

February 23, 2025 by thestakemag 2 Comments

Apocalypse Now just isn’t that great and Brando is to blame

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Apocalypse Now, Forest Lewis, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando

Magic Zones: Geoff Dyer, Andrei Tarkovsky and Film Criticism as Antidote to Loneliness

February 10, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Eradicating borders between film and criticism, with a long Russian film from the 1970s.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Film Criticism, Forest Lewis, Geoff Dyer, Solaris, Stalker, Zona

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies misunderstands Jane Austen. And Zombies

February 5, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Misunderstanding Jane Austen and Zombies leads to un-fun parody

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Forest Lewis, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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