Emergency
For lack of a better word, there comes a difficulty when writing and directing films revolving around adolescent characters. The difficulty is, how said characters are written overall so that [...]
The Bob’s Burgers Movie
The jump to television to the big screen has proven highly successful for such animated shows as South Park and The Simpsons, which makes all the sense in the world [...]
Montana Story
In case you were wondering, Montana Story is in fact an American independent drama that's setting is, well, in Montana. It's smaller scale than the series Yellowstone, with just a [...]
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick elevates nostalgia, and similar to its predecessor, this energetic and witty follow-up to the 1986 Bruckheimer produced/late Tony Scott directed action movie classic titled Top Gun delivers [...]
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
I'm not sure I would have ever guessed Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg, two of the three members of The Lonely Island, the comedic rap group that began on Saturday [...]
Lux Æterna
With Lux Æterna, it's as if Argentine French filmmaker Gaspar Noe wanted to willfully be more experimental and playful (even his most playful is still brooding) and appears to have [...]
1992 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1992
Continuing our year-by-year retrospectives of the best films depending on the dates, I now introduce to you 1992. This was the year when the US Supreme Court reaffirmed the right [...]
Men
What could certainly be labeled as a "thinking person's" horror film—audiences walking into Men expecting a conventional horror film to deliver the thrills, chills, or other mysterious forces that hunt [...]
In Front of Your Face
In the indie and international worlds, films about sibling reunions are common ground, but In Front of Your Face stands out with its delicate writing and superb performances by Korean [...]
Firestarter
You might recall the poster or DVD artwork of Drew Barrymore as a child standing with a look of anxiety with flames behind her in the 1984 horror-thriller titled Firestarter [...]