August 6th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
There’s an active-shooter drill at Balthazar’s private school, and while the other kids are stretched out on the floor under fake blood, he starts flirting with Eleanor. You see, murder, fear, someone else’s pain, is all becomes part of his little show. Balthazar “Balthy” Malone (Jaeden Martell) is a rich Manhattan teenager who spends his […]
July 9th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
The audacious coming-of-age story that expertly balances pitch-black humor with a sense of creeping menace, Our Hero, Balthazar is an engrossing modern fable about the influence of social media, isolation, and glorified violence on modern adolescence. Showcasing “the superb acting” (Deadline) of Jaeden Martell (St. Vincent, It) and “transformative” (Deadline) Asa Butterfield (“Sex Education,” Ender’s […]
March 18th, 2020 by Brandon Peters
When it comes to modern filmmakers, Rian Johnson is an instant ticket purchased no matter what he’s doing. He’s proven over and over a knowledgeable student of film and a clever, thoughtful filmmaker with a fantastic ideology in the world of story craft and character work. The fact that this guy went and tackled an […]
December 7th, 2019 by Brandon Peters
Two years ago, the 2017 adaptation of the legendary Stephen King novel It became a complete phenomenon. Setting the film world on fire from the launch of its trailer, It (2017) opened to an absurd amount of money for an R-rated horror film and surged its way, with strong legs to become a complete box […]