Jordan Ryan Lester

Starring Bella Thorne and Jessie Usher, Jeremy Ungar’s latest film, Ride (2018) is a mediocre, if not somewhat interesting cyber-thriller in which a suspicious Ryde (fictional version of Uber) customer hijacks a driver and his friend. Where the... Read the full review »

While the MCU’s adaptation of Spider-Man is going strong, Sony Picture’s Avi Arad's (who produced all of the previous Spidey films) passion project has always been a Venom spin-off. Originally pitched back in 2007 as a follow-up to Spider-Man... Read the full review »

The unreliable narrator is the voice in every story that tells us what is supposedly happening, but much like the title entails, they are unreliable. So, in reality the only reliable narrator is life itself, because it takes us on unpredictable tu... Read the full review »

Spanning over 30 years and 6 films, the Predator franchise is no stranger to sequels. Having reintroduced Alien to the masses, it only makes sense that 20th Century Fox would decide to try and create a new franchise out of Shane Black’s The Pred... Read the full review »

After the debut of the wildly successful Conjuring franchise, Warner Bros. greenlit a series of spin-offs and prequels. We are now on the third film, The Nun (2018), which is unfortunately a film that solely relies on its prior properties to makeu... Read the full review »

In 1956, Sylvia Hermann introduced her (then) boyfriend to her blind father, Lothar. During this encounter, her father recognized Klaus’s last name, and began to inquire about his family heritage. After some investigating, it was discovered that... Read the full review »

During the summer of 1997, author Steve Alten’s Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror was released. While some critics loved the book (the LA Times called it “Jurassic Shark”) many found it to be stale, and wholly uninteresting despite the fact that i... Read the full review »

“I had everything I needed, but still wanted more” says writer/director Lauren Greenfield, while recalling the start of her childhood in her newest documentary, Generation Wealth (2018), which is her newest project that sets out to document an... Read the full review »

At the beginning of 2018, Daveed Diggs’ and Rafael Casal’s Blindspotting (2018) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It subsequently played at such fests as SXSW and ATLFF (Atlanta Film Festival), and garnered even more praise, so as you c... Read the full review »

We’ve been taught to "stick to the script" our whole lives. We believe that if we start at the bottom, and work our way to the top, we will be who we really want to become. This ideology fuels every Americans dreams of going from janitor to CEO,... Read the full review »