Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Why You Should Revisit the Tron Movies in 2023

The Tron movies are visual and franchise landmarks for cinema.

A Year Later, It’s Clear Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) Was a Miscalculation in Conception and Execution

In Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, there’s almost no electricity to events that should be stirring.

TV CornerAnton BergstromAugust 2, 2023Star Wars, Deborah Chow, Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyra Blair, Rupert Friend, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Sung Kang, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, rescue the princessComment

Review: Oppenheimer (2023)

Oppenheimer is a biographical epic that is also distinctly a film by Christopher Nolan.

Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Does the modern world need Indiana Jones?

Table Talk: The Last of Us Season 1 (2023)

Now that the dust has settled, Anton and Aren discuss HBO’s big TV hit of 2023, The Last of Us. Is it great TV?

TV Corner, RoundtablesAnton BergstromJune 30, 2023The Last of Us, Pedro Pascal, Ellie Ramsey, zombie, post-apocalyptic, TV show, plague, pandemic Comment

Review: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is Frank Capra’s great American political folktale.

Reviews, Flash BackAnton BergstromMarch 7, 2023Jimmy Stewart, Frank Capra, American politics, Sidney Buchman, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Astrid Allwyn, comedy, drama, US Senate, idealism, cynicismComment

Roundtable: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

The Brothers discuss James Cameron’s return with Avatar: The Way of Water. How does the sequel hold up?

James Cameron, RoundtablesAnton BergstromJanuary 6, 2023James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar, science fiction, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Thunderball, water, technology, sequelComment

Roundtable: The Career of James Cameron Part 2 (1992-2021)

The Brothers discuss the second half of Cameron’s career, including his move away from the science-fiction genre in the 1990s, his 2000s undersea documentaries, and the philosophy and worldbuilding of Avatar.

James Cameron, RoundtablesAnton BergstromDecember 16, 2022James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, The Career of James Cameron, roundtable, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, Ghosts of the Abyss, Expedition: Bismarck, Aliens of the DeepComment

James Cameron: Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)

James Cameron, Bill Paxton, and a team of explorers return to the wreck of the RMS Titanic to bear witness and memorialize those who were lost.

Reviews, James Cameron, Flash BackAnton BergstromDecember 13, 2022James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, Ghosts of the Abyss, Titanic, Expedition: Bismarck, underwater, exploration, ocean, shipwreck, timeComment

James Cameron: Titanic (1997)

Titanic is a gargantuan summation of the breadth and depth of Cameron’s cinematic craftsmanship as well as his thematic obsessions.

James Cameron: Aliens (1986)

Aliens is a deep exploration of the warrior mother as well as a gripping and relentless science-fiction action thriller.

Review: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Twelve O’Clock High is a great account of the physical and mental toll on active servicemen, as well as a gripping portrayal of the nuts and bolts of daytime precision bombing during World War II.

Halloween Horror: Spectres of Plague and Death in Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

In Nosferatu, the corrupting power of the vampire is linked to that most symbolically potent infectious disease, the Black Death.

Halloween Horror: The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is more effective as a late-night Gothic thriller than as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story.

Halloween Horror, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAnton BergstromOctober 21, 2022Halloween Horror, Roger Corman, Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, horror, Gothic horror, plague, voyeurismComment

Halloween Horror: Last Night in Soho (2021)

Last Night in Soho has an incredible premise and many excellent features, which makes it especially disappointing when the film goes off the rails.

Review: Eternal Spring (2022)

Using animation to recreate the subjects’ memories, Eternal Spring considers the hijacking in 2002 of broadcast TV by a group of Falun Gong practitioners in northeastern China.