Shelby Oaks
Anyone around the early days of the Youtube film scene is most certainly familiar with Chris Stuckmann. A warm and welcoming figure whose passion for film separated him from the [...]
After the Hunt
Director Luca Guadagnino's exceptional and dramatically charged double features from last year, Challengers and Queer, were both skillfully made films that didn't quite get the year-end movie push as they [...]
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman is the new adaptation of the 1992/93 musical based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel, which had in 1986 been turned into an Oscar winning film [...]
The Lost Bus
The Lost Bus is the latest film from director and co-writer Paul Greengrass. Based on Lizzie Johnson’s non-fiction 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, this is the [...]
Eleanor the Great
Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, works the best when it focuses on itself as a character study as well as on a close but deceiving friendship. However, it [...]
The Toxic Avenger (2025)
The Toxic Avenger is a loving, smartly updated take on the 1984 splatter horror comedy landmark. Where the original was nearly all gore and sex, often for what seemed to [...]
Happy Gilmore 2
Happy Gilmore 2 is the sequel to the original 1996 film, starring Adam Sandler. Happy is a golfer driven by his rage, harnessing that to drive the ball further than anyone [...]
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
For decades now, it has been an ongoing joke that the Fantastic Four property is cursed when it comes to making successful film adaptations. Roger Corman famously attempted to bring [...]
Ash
"Ash" will worm its way into your brain, sure, but leave much of its sordid alien world and the human crew inhabiting it narratively wanting.
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Horror is a tricky genre to get right. It requires a delicate balancing of elements, namely suspense, emotion, levity, the grotesque and the unnerving, among others. For as many films [...]