Movie Features
Sometimes, we must do a deep dive when watching a movie. At Ready Steady Cut, we analyze and dissect movies, providing theories and unique perspectives. Here are our Movie Features.
We also do TV Features too.
The Tom Holland MCU Collection: How the Definitive Peter Parker’s Movies Stack Up After ‘Brand New Day’
For many fans who aren’t quite old enough to recall the Sam Raimi trilogy, or who understandably missed the Andrew Garfield duology after the second...
Christopher Nolan’s Resilience Since 2020 Has Paid Off: How ‘The Odyssey’ Proves Serious Cinema Is the Only Way
2020 and 2021 were challenging times for Christopher Nolan. He had directed the highly ambitious film Tenet following the successes of Interstellar and Dunkirk. The pandemic came at...
How ‘Elize: Shadows of a Woman’ Adapts A Divisive True Story
In 2012, Elize Matsunaga shot her husband, Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, in the head. She then dismembered him in their apartment and carried the pieces, stored...
‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Feels A Bit Desperate, And I’m Not Sure Nostalgia Can Fix the MCU
When I watched the official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, I felt something. A familiar pang of excitement, maybe, probably brought on by the main theme....
Christopher Nolan and ‘The Odyssey’ Have Made Lame Culture Warriors Look Like Morons
At the time of writing, after its gargantuan opening weekend, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has walked away with a gigantic box office haul. The epic...
The Success Of ‘Desire’ Is Why Netflix Won’t Let the Erotic Thriller Die — Even Though It Should
Rather improbably, Netflix’s Mexican erotic thriller Desire (Deseo) is the number one streaming movie in the world. This is despite the fact that, like basically...
Is Uwe Boll Actually Bad at Making Movies? I Did The Maths
Taking away the subjectivity of film criticism, mathematically and by the law of averages, Uwe Boll is bad at making movies. However, he is clearly...
‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the Streisand Effect: A Loss For Art Is A Win For Cult Marketing
Citizen Vigilante shouldn’t be successful if you think about it. It’s a deeply terrible movie on a technical level and a wildly irresponsible one morally,...
Waiting It Out: A Timeline Of Louis C.K.’s Shrugging Return to the Mainstream in ‘Ridiculous’
While he wasn’t the first, and he certainly won’t be the last, Louis C.K.’s cancellation and subsequent career renaissance is one of the more instructive...
Armie Hammer’s Role In ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Is The Latest In A Long Line Of Post-Cancellation Comebacks
While the selling point of Citizen Vigilante, at least for its target demographic, is undoubtedly all the Muslim murdering, it’s undoubtedly a fascinating case study in...
Patriots Hate Immigrants So Much They’re Defending an Uwe Boll Movie
You need only take a brief look at the comments beneath my review of Citizen Vigilante, an execrable piece of fascistic propaganda from notoriously provocative...
‘Toy Story 6’ Absolutely Does Not Need to Happen
Toy Story 6 – let’s play with the idea of another sequel in this franchise for a moment. It’s basically confirmed, and with a decent...
How ‘Disclosure Day 2’ Can Fix the First Film’s Illogical Sci-Fi Writing
With the Steven Spielberg magic in full effect, Disclosure Day is being generally loved by audiences and critics alike. Despite my negative review and complaints...
The Source Material Of ‘Colors of Evil: Black’ Virtually Guarantees A Sequel
Colors of Evil: Black is a sequel to Colors of Evil: Red, both Polish thrillers adapted by Adrian Panek for Netflix from Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak’s...
‘Michael’ Is Impossible to Review Sensibly, and the Sequel Will Be No Different
A few weeks have passed since the release of Michael, the biographical tribute to the late Michael Jackson – a man who could stand on...
The Apple TV Show You NEED To See If You Enjoyed Taron Egerton’s Villain In ‘Apex’
I have to say that I’m genuinely surprised by how many people are shocked to see a skinhead Taron Egerton terrorising Charlize Theron in Netflix’s Apex....
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Gets A Few Things Dead Wrong About ‘Silent Hill 2’
Unlike Christophe Gans’s first cinematic foray into the world of Silent Hill, which wasn’t based on any of the games in particular and instead pulled...
Netflix’s Ghoulish ‘Skyscraper Live’ Sets A Worrying Precedent For Live Programming
Let’s be frank here: Anyone who tunes into Skyscraper Live is doing so for one reason and one reason only, which is to see if...