It has taken the newcomer producer-turned-director Elfar Adalsteins eight years to get his debut feature film off the ground, aptly titled "End of Sentence."His first feature is an overly familiar but multi-nuanced melodrama about the fragile relationship between a father and son (superbly played by John Hawkes and Logan Lerman), whose vulnerabilities and dynamics go through transitions and reconciliation upon their trip from [...]
The documentary film "The Painter and the Thief" revisits familiar ideas about unconventional love that has been explored in numerous indie films. The central premise of director Benjamin Ree's second [...]
Reprising their roles from "The Trip," "The Trip to Italy", "The Trip to Spain," we now have the fourth installment of "The Trip" movie series with "The Trip to Greece," [...]
The title of John Barr's glum and equally taut "Blood and Money" is an unimaginative movie title, but the movie is not. While certainly a mixed bag, the film goes [...]
Our podcast appearances on MPI Crew Call is now on iHeart Radio. Give it a listen as podcast host Sara Mahmood along with Defacto film reviewers Noah Damron and Robert [...]
Coky Giedroyc's "How to Build a Girl" offers an inside, honest look as being a teenager that holds some charm, but is vastly inconsistent with its tonal shifts, even when [...]
The subtext of Matt Wolf's highly essential documentary, “Spaceship Earth ,” is just as relevant as the text, in this case, a rather straightforward documentary about a group of scientists [...]
It’s often difficult for any modern horror flick to feel fresh or become a game changer particularly in the case of this low-budget, homegrown film produced here in Michigan (reportedly [...]
A oddly callous, offbeat quirky dark comedy, “Deerskin” emerges as one of the most unpredictable films to be released so far this year, a small, absurdist and well-scripted film that's [...]
Despite its world premiere at the 2019 SXSW, I entered the Irish comedy "Extra Ordinary" not knowing what to anticipate. In fact, when I first saw the teaser trailer, I [...]
