The Cinematic Review-verse

One of the posters for  The Bikeriders. Photo courtesy of William Beavers. Austin Butler  and Tom Hardy  did a great job acting in Focus Features'  The Bikeriders . There was occasional Johnny Cash and June Carter Walk the Line- esque chemistry between Jodie Comer and Butler's characters, enjoyable humor watching Butler act like Patrick Swayze and Hardy act like Robert De Niro, and amazing blues and rock and roll music depicted in the film. The Bikeriders  was also a great combination of tragedy and togetherness when it told the tales of humanity and inhumanity in members of a biker gang in the 1960s American Midwest. Based on a book by real-life photographer Danny Lyon, played by Mike Faist from Challengers,   The Bikeriders  tells the story of the Chicago chapter of the Vandals motorcycle club , led by Johnny, played by Hardy. One of his members and closest friends, Benny, played by Butler, is caught between enjoying the life of a dangerous bi...

In Zendaya's latest cinematic venture, Challengers , she plays Tashi Duncan , a former tennis prodigy caught in a professional and personal dilemma between her tennis player husband Art Donaldson , played by Mike Faist , Riff from Spielberg's West Side Story, and his former best friend and another tennis player, Patrick Zweig , played by Josh O'Connor . Zendaya (center), Mike Faist (left), and Josh O'Connor (right) in Amazon MGM's 'Challengers'. Photo courtesy of MGM. The good parts were Zendaya's passion for tennis, like a young Venus Williams-type player, the conflicting foreplay with Zendaya, O'Connor, and Faist, O'Connor's character's antagonistic behavior, and the electronic background music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whom you may recognize from Nine Inch Nails and films like The Social Network or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. You might have some fun watching Zendaya dancing to some cool 2000s hip hop throwback music. The ...