The Pope’s Exorcist
For modern moviegoers, most blockbuster supernatural horror feels familiar; a family arrives at a house, wherein spooky things suddenly go bump in the night, and one or more of them [...]
Renfield
Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye. Carlos Villarias and Pablo Alvarez Rubio. Frank Langella and Tony Haygarth. Klaus Kinski and Roland Topor. George Hamilton and Arte Johnson. Gary Oldman and Tom [...]
Rare Objects
Over the course of the past five years or so, it has become more common to see compassionate films come out that boldly explore the traumas of sexual assault and [...]
Mafia Mamma
While the mafia comedy has certainly run its course in cinema, it hardly needs another addition: we have had some sharply funny ones previously with such titles like [...]
Joyland
While we have had our fair share of very compelling pieces of LGBTQ cinema recently with such titles as Of an Age, The Blue Caftan, Port Authority, and Lingua Franca, to name [...]
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
In How to Blow Up a Pipeline, one of the most suspenseful and taut political thrillers released recently, filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber delivers a satisfying blend of suspense and social commentary. [...]
Air
Ben Affleck’s latest directorial pursuit sees him at the helm of a corporate biopic, Air, which is ostensibly a movie about shoe giant Nike, but winds up being more about [...]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
As a child of the 90's, Nintendo, and the characters of the Mushroom Kingdom have been a critical asset of my upbringing. Whether it was staying up late at a [...]
Paint
While making a parody of a iconic American painter like Bob Ross sounds like a sealed deal, however, filmmaker Brit McAdams and his muse Owen Wilson never quite reach its [...]
Showing Up
After debuting a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, Kelly Reichardt's eighth feature titled Showing Up finally gets its North American release. It stars frequent collaborator Michelle [...]