Film Reviews & Insights
The Lion King
The Lion King is undoubtedly one of Disney’s most perfect films, and certainly one of the highlights of their last renaissance. It contains the most stunning example of their classic, [...]
Robert Joseph Butler’s Love Immortal: Screening Information
As some of you may know, Defacto Film Reviews founder and chief critic, Robert Joseph Butler has been working tirelessly over the past year on his first feature, Love Immortal. [...]
Stuber
The possibility of bad Uber drives has become a joke on the Internet. The fact that you’re free to accept jobs from random people through the app means you’re more [...]
Spider-Man: Far From Home
As the first entry in the MCU post "Avengers: Endgame", “Spider-Man: Far From Home” understandably has much to live up to. Having to pick up the pieces and continue on [...]
Crawl
Who knew that of all the major studios in Hollywood, Paramount Pictures would be the one to release the most consistently vicious and tension-filled genre films of the late 2010's. [...]
Too Old to Die Young
The versatile and innovative Amazon Prime brings Nicholas Winding Refn's new series "Too Old to Die Young" to its streaming service, which debuted on June 14th, and I am sure [...]
Midsommar
Ari Aster's first feature, last year's sleeper hit, "Hereditary", was a film that haunted my dreams. Etched itself inside my soul. Made me think long and hard about my own [...]
Yesterday
In an age of social media, people are becoming so obsessed with the things of today that they are flat-out ignoring anything that came from the age before them. They [...]
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The timing for a film like "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" is right. Cities like San Francisco across American have been changing, due to mass migration along with [...]
The Dead Don’t Die
Jim Jarmusch's thirteenth feature film is a zombie film, but it is far from being brainless, but its also not that fun or as clever as it thinks it is. [...]
Anna
Director Luc Besson has been creating some influential female character within the action genre. From Leeloo in The Fifth Element to Scarlett Johansson’s character in Lucy, he is known for [...]