Brent Hankins

The first James Cameron film I remember seeing was Terminator 2: Judgment Day, at a drive-in with my parents in the summer of 1991 (I wouldn’t see the original film until later, thanks to a network TV broadcast that I recorded to VHS). At the time, the fi... See more

Josh C. Waller’s Lone Samurai may not reach the heights of the Kurosawa classics it clearly reveres, but there’s enough craftsmanship and energy here to make it worth the journey. The premise is straightforward enough: 13th-century ronin Riku (Shogen) was... See more

I’ve been a fan of Edgar Wright’s kinetic, music-driven approach to filmmaking since Shaun of the Dead, and over the past few years, Glen Powell has emerged as one of our most reliably charismatic screen presences. So when Paramount announced the pair wou... See more

Over the past several years, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone have forged the kind of creative partnership that recalls Scorsese and De Niro, or Kurosawa and Mifune, a collaboration where director and actor operate on the same peculiar wavelength. After ac... See more

I have an unhealthy affection for films where the primary action consists of great actors delivering great dialogue in various rooms. When done poorly, these can feel stagey and inert, but when done right — as Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates emphatically in ... See more