Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
We've seen pop stars come and go with varying degrees of success and pop culture impact throughout the past, but never have we seen one come in the form of [...]
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The melodramatic detours and pokey pacing in The United States vs. Billie Holiday certainly speaks to Lee Daniels sensibilities, overwrought and overstuffed with many raw emotions, and is conventional to [...]
I Care a Lot
Another satire on capitalism and the corruption of the American dream, I Care a Lot is a playful, but deliberately mean-spirited dark comedy about greed and determination that defies audience [...]
Test Pattern
We just recently had the highly acclaimed Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman's small-budget indie masterpiece that also explored women reproductive rights, for Test Pattern, the film also explores women's [...]
PVT Chat
The evolution of the film noir is a fascinating one to track. Early works like Double Indemnity or Detour reflect a period that might seem entirely alien to a modern [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day from Defacto–55 Great Films About Human Connection
Covid has been very difficult for single people, as I'm sure some of you can imagine. If anything, it has probably created many to feel even more alone as we [...]
Judas and the Black Messiah
The story of the Black Panthers, particularly that of its Illinois Chairman Fred Hampton, hasn't been as well-publicized in recent decades as it should. Take this writer for example, a [...]
Duck You Sucker (Spotlight Review) 50th Anniversary!
One of the Best Film of 1971!! Sergio Leone's final western, the 1971 saga "Duck You Sucker," also known as "A Fistful of Dynamite" is a triumphant masterpiece that features [...]
Malcolm & Marie
Malcolm (John David Washington), an up-and-coming film director, and his girlfriend, Marie (Zendaya) a former actress, return home late after a successful film premiere. Off the high of strong buzz [...]
The Little Things
A neo-noir crime thriller about a serial killer that terrifies female victims in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, The Little Things, writer-director John Lee Hancock's latest film is of [...]