Chris DePetrillo

No Surrender Cinema: The Flash

The Fastest Man Alive. The Scarlet Speedster. The star of this edition of No Surrender Cinema! Even if you don’t read comic books, you’d have to know that I’m talking about The Flash, the superhero with...

Scene of the Week: Brawl in the Hall

Summer is almost upon us, and classes around the world are being dismissed for the school year. In this Scene Of The Week, we’re going to look back at a school year that started off very...

What If Cannon Made Their Spider-Man Film?

Get ready, True Believers, because today’s the day! The time has finally come to travel Across The Spider-Verse with Miles Morales and various other versions of Spider-Man, and today I’m going to look back at the vision for...

No Surrender Cinema: Fast X

I’m back behind the wheel for another edition of No Surrender Cinema, so fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight! The Fast and the Furious franchise is approaching the end of the road, but if you’ve seen even...

No Surrender Cinema: Bruce, King of Kung Fu

This summer will mark the anniversary of two incredibly important events of martial arts history; the death of Bruce Lee, and the posthumous release of Enter The Dragon, the most highly regarded and important film from the martial...

No Surrender Cinema: The Foreigner (2017)

Political intrigue and subversion are not two characteristics one might think of when discussing Jackie Chan films, but these two subjects are at the core of The Foreigner, the 2017 film starring Chan and Pierce Brosnan. Though I’ve...

No Surrender Cinema: Scream VI

I have a deep affection for the year 1996. While a lot of is based in sentimentality and major life events, it’s also the year that I’ve long said is arguably the most consistent year for...

No Surrender Cinema: End of Loyalty

Murder. Vengeance. Honor. These are the central themes of End of Loyalty, a new crime thriller from the fine folks at Uncork’d Entertainment that debuts on VOD and DVD today. Yours truly had the opportunity to screen...