Film Reviews & Insights
Radu Jude’s Dracula
Trash cinema is a term not lightly used by this reviewer. First, how does one define or intend the use of that term? John Waters and Andy Warhol both made [...]
Christy
Christy Martin is one of the great female boxers in the history of the sport. This film may not be one of the great boxing films, but it is a [...]
Nouvelle Vague
The French New Wave is one of the most important movements in the history of cinema, and Jean-Luc Godard is one of the prime movers within. His film, Breathless, released in 1960, [...]
It Was Just an Accident
Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi returns with his greatest film to date in his impressive filmography, It Was Just an Accident, a dramatically charged and timely political thriller that is [...]
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 [...]
Bugonia
Just midway through his career, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos jumped from Greek cinema into American movies—including some indie cult classics like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer—to [...]
Good Boy
Horror is a vast and tricky genre. Get it right, and it can do almost anything, and say so very much. Do it wrong, and it can be among the [...]
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a film that does not have as important a reason for existing as it seems to believe. Jeremy Allen White, superb as a tormented [...]
Frankenstein
Wintry, chilling, and captivating, Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a breathtaking retelling of the classic two-century-old novel; it's a horror movie that feels Shakespearian in just [...]
Mr. Scorsese
Martin Scorsese has been making feature films since 1967. He had been dabbling in short films since his teen years. This is a long and, despite the reputation, a rather [...]
Fairyland
Based on the memoir by author Alysia Abbot, Fairyland tells the story of her life, from the time her mother died when she was not quite three, to her father’s passing nearly [...]