Brahms: The Boy 2
"The Boy", released in January of 2016, was something of a moderate sleeper hit opening to a decent $10 million before continuing to gross nearly $75 million worldwide. The film, [...]
The Call of the Wild
High above the reaches of society, in the middle of the Gold Rush of the 1800s, the world is still a relatively new place. This was a time when we [...]
Horse Girl
The Sundance film Horse Girl has landed a wide release on Netflix. Directed by Jeff Baena and co-written by him and its star Alison Brie, it's the story of a [...]
Downhill
It's very redundant and very common to be sour when Hollywood remakes exceptional international films. In the case of "Downhill", an American remake of the 2014 outstanding Swedish hit film written [...]
Zombi Child
Haiti is the ghost that plagues Bertrand Bonello, and in "Zombi Child" it is far from being a ghost film, and contrary to what the title leads you to believe, [...]
The Photograph (2020)
Valentine's Day has usually been a mixed bag in terms of quality romantic films at the box office. With the highly profitable but much maligned "Fifty Shades" trilogy and 2010's [...]
Sonic the Hedgehog
Based on the Sega video game franchise of the same name, this movie had all the ingredients to be a disaster. Video game movies, as many already know, don’t have [...]
The Assistant
With sexual harassment in the workplace finally being thrust into the media spotlight, we are now seeing more films exploring such wretched behavior. The #MeToo drama "The Assistant" is a [...]
The Lodge
The 2019 Sundance hit film "The Lodge," which is either a psychological horror film about individuals trapped in purgatory, or a psychological study about trauma in the modern era, stands [...]
2nd Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate the Oscars, we are pleased to announce the Best of 2019 nominees and winners in fourteen categories. We selected the top five picks in the following categories: Best [...]