The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The melodramatic detours and pokey pacing in The United States vs. Billie Holiday certainly speaks to Lee Daniels sensibilities, overwrought and overstuffed with many raw emotions, and is conventional to [...]
I Care a Lot
Another satire on capitalism and the corruption of the American dream, I Care a Lot is a playful, but deliberately mean-spirited dark comedy about greed and determination that defies audience [...]
PVT Chat
The evolution of the film noir is a fascinating one to track. Early works like Double Indemnity or Detour reflect a period that might seem entirely alien to a modern [...]
Palmer
Well intended with a heart, but ultimately trite and not overly surprising on a dramatic level, Palmer is a well acted but flawed film that comes across more like a [...]
News of the World by Ian Courtney
We live in an age of information overload. Twitter feeds, Instagram stories, Reddit threads, Facebook posts, podcasts, streaming services, text messages, email, etc; they are all coming at us a [...]
Happiest Season
Even though same sex attraction is something that has been with the human race most likely since the dawn of humanity—I’m sure cavemen weren’t only clubbing cavewomen, if ya know [...]
Mortal
‘Mortal’ is a return to Norway for André Øverdal which is where he shot his breakthrough feature film ‘Trollhunter’, he then headed over to the U.K. for the coroner two-hander [...]
The Last Shift
We all need money. Every one of us is stuck in this system, whether we like it or not. And a lot of people are stuck in dead end jobs, [...]
The Empty Man
There's a strong likelihood that you've never heard of Disney/20th Century's newest release, The Empty Man, at least until a week ago when the first trailer was released. All signs [...]
True History of the Kelly Gang
A follow-up to “MacBeth,” (2015) Justin Kurzel's “True History of the Kelly Gang,” is an ultra violent Aussie-Western period piece movie, offering an episodic account of bushranger Ned Kelly in [...]