Film Reviews & Insights
The Penguin Lessons
At a first glimpse, it seems practical to easily dismiss The Penguin Lessons. For all its faults and obvious cliches, the film is actually very sincere in approach and execution, [...]
A Minecraft Movie
The best-selling video game of all time, Minecraft was released in full to the world in late 2011 and has since sold over 300 million copies. While video game adaptations [...]
Pavements
Pavements is an unusual work. Described by its writer/director as a “semiotic experience” this four-pronged look at the rock band, Pavement, will most likely appeal to die-hard fans of the group [...]
Death of a Unicorn
As the studio continues to build its resumé with broader audiences, A24's latest cheeky genre flick aims to add a twist to the creature feature formula. Satirically tackling the pharmaceutical [...]
The Friend
The Friend is the newest film from Scott McGehee and David Siegel, based on an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel by Sigrid Nunez. Nunez had written the work in order to reach friends that she [...]
Eephus
With a hang-out movie ease and naturalistic characters and dialogue, co-writer and director Carson Lund in his debut feature has crafted an amusing, elegiac, and highly authentic sports comedy that [...]
Snow White
Continuing the seemingly never-ending strategy of remaking every classic animated film in their arsenal, Disney's latest update of a classic story goes all the way back to the beginning. Not [...]
Magazine Dreams
Magazine Dreams is the newest film from writer/director Elijah Bynum, last seen as the co-writer of the Lee Daniels dud, The Deliverance. Here, opting for a cast of much lesser-known [...]
The Alto Knights
One of the most disappointing experiences one can have is to see a mob thriller starring not one, but two Robert De Niros (in dual roles) that's not particularly engaging [...]
Novocaine
Just three months into the year and already actor Jack Quaid has his second major leading role hitting theaters. After the slick sci-fi thriller Companion, Quaid returns this time as [...]
Black Bag
Steven Soderbergh returns with his delirious style with another skillfully mounted spy film titled Black Bag that's in the tradition of some of his other caper films with twists and [...]