Film Reviews & Insights
The Python Hunt
The Everglades region of Florida has seen a rise in invasive species over the last four decades, but none with the power to capture the public imagine quite like the [...]
The Sheep Detectives
Once in awhile, a film comes around that so greatly exceeds the furthest reaches of expectation that it becomes a must-see event just to believe the hype with your own [...]
Pressure
There have been many films about war and many about the Second World War. A seeming majority of those have centered on either combat or rescue missions. Pressure is in [...]
Passenger
“Sometimes when you get haunted, it’s like stepping on gum. You… take it with you.” So said famous (and infamous) demonologist and ghost hunter Ed Warren, of The Conjuring fame, in the [...]
Tuner
Tuner is a relatively simple story, and it is a film that offers no true innovations, in plot or character, but is rather about the how well it is told, rather [...]
I Love Boosters
Boots Riley's sophomore feature follows the same formula as his debut, Sorry to Bother You—a film that holds immense visual invention, but one where the invention is ultimately overcooked. The [...]
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The fourth anthology film in the Star Wars saga from co-writer/director Jon Favreau and co-writer Dave Filoni, The Mandalorian and Grogu certainly carries on the spirit of the hit Disney+ [...]
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Olivier Assayas is a director who has done many different sorts of films, but ultimately they are always centered on intense characters caught in remarkable situations. Sometimes, the works are [...]
Obsession
Magic in all of its darkest forms appears to be in the zeitgeist again. Hollywood seems to go through phases of preoccupation with exploring the depths and potential costs of, [...]
Diamonds
Diamonds is a special film. It is, at times, a bit melodramatic, but only in the best sense of the word. It is inarguably passionate and darkly funny. It contains wisdom [...]
Marc by Sofia
Sofia Coppola's documentary Marc by Sofia is like a scrapbook turned into celluloid; it gives an insider's view of the fashion world that is personal, passionate, artful, and always insightful. [...]