Carlo Peritore, Author at This Is Film - Conversations in Film and Pop Culture

There isn’t much I remember about 2017’s Justice League. From what I do, I recall it being a mish mash…

Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021)

March 25, 2021

Godzilla vs. Kong is very much a critic proof film. No level of pontificating about the lack of human character…

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

March 11, 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah sits firmly within that camp of filmmaking that is both entrancing and enraging. A look…

Tenet (2020)

November 24, 2020

Tenet feels like the second film in a series of alternate universe Bond films (the first obviously being Inception), where…

Relic (2020)

July 17, 2020

I’ve often maintained that good horror is difficultly to do. It’s very easy to assault an audience with numerous jump…

The Invisible Man (2020)

February 26, 2020

Leigh Whannell is a director who wears his love of genre cinema very much on his sleeve. From his early…

Birds of Prey (Carlo’s Take) (2020)

February 7, 2020

Birds of Prey is like emptying an entire jar of Nutella onto a singular slice of bread. Very few people may…

Carlo’s Cinematic Happy Places of 2019

January 31, 2020

2019, Best Of, Feature

Yup, it’s indeed that time of year – again, where I gather up the morsels of cinema, the moments that…

The Gentlemen (2020)

January 2, 2020

There’s a notion bandied about on Film Twitter that Guy Ritchie never fully recovered following his meteoric rise during his Lock,…

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

December 30, 2019