Film Reviews & Insights
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Just shy of five years ago, the unexpected Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a shot in the arm to the comic book genre. With its distinct approach to [...]
Lynch/Oz
Up there with Elvis Mitchell's Is That Black Enough For You?!? as being one of the most insightful documentaries about cinema filmmaking, and film theory as of late, Lynch/Oz does [...]
The Machine
Anyone familiar with Youtube around 2016 will be remember a stand-up comedy bit that was shared everywhere. The bit, coming from comedian Bert Kreischer in his special The Machine, was [...]
Sancturary
A thorny and unconventional love story, Zachary Wigon's sophomore feature Sancturary plays out more like a modern expansion of Steven Shanberg's 2002 indie classic Secretary, about two people bouncing in [...]
The Little Mermaid
Continuing the spotty track record of Disney live-action remakes, Rob Marshall's adaptation of the animated classic, largely responsible for ushering in the Disney Renaissance, continuing with the likes of Beauty [...]
You Hurt My Feelings
New York City is proving to be a comfortable setting for the greatly skilled Nicole Holofcener. From her breakthrough indie debut Walking and Talking to Enough Said and co-writing Can [...]
White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
The new White Men Can’t Jump remake, helmed by director Calmatic, has a lot to like, although it still comes off a lot less satisfying than the 1992 original. The [...]
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
One of the most heart wrenching events in entertainment is the sudden cessation of a burgeoning career, particularly that of a universally well-liked, talented star. So when movie and TV [...]
Fast X
It’s hard for any franchise whose previous film literally went to space to be brought back down to earth, especially the Fast and Furious franchise, whose characters have defied the [...]
Moon Garden
Centering a film on a child’s performance can be a great risk for a filmmaker. On one hand, as all of us were once children, and many are parents, there [...]
The Mother
JLO is a Mother. She's also now THE Mother. Yes, that is not only the given name for her character, but the title of the film, in which Lopez states, [...]