Film Reviews & Insights
Inside
Willem Dafoe has always been one of the most fearless and feral actors of our modern age, testing the limits of his performances and taking very challenging projects and elevating [...]
Moving On
In his previous film, writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Grandma) ventured into grief and how to rekindle friendships and eventually find closure in the Netflix comedy-drama titled Fatherhood. With [...]
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Audiences may never have expected to see the words "Adam Driver" and "dinosaurs" in the same sentence before, let alone the same movie, but the newly-released sci-fi action blockbuster 65 [...]
Scream VI
Last year's Scream -- or Scream 5 as most reasonable folks refer to it, saw the "legacyquel/requel" formula gets its comeuppance by way of the Scream treatment. Taking a bite [...]
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Jamie Dack’s debut film, Palm Trees and Power Lines, is a stylistic feature with a great cast. The would-be coming of age drama descends into the manipulative dynamic of an [...]
Champions
Overly banal and cliché, a U.S. remake of the Spanish sports comedy Campeones (2018) about the adventures of a disgraced foul-mouthed minor league basketball coach who finds himself in deep [...]
Creed 3
One of the great Cinderella stories of cinema is the original Rocky, not only for the titular character, but also for the films writer/star Sylvester Stallone. A film that not [...]
Lamya’s Poem
The power of the written word and the stories of our cultures are monumental building blocks to people everywhere. This is true across all races, creeds, and religions. Our stories [...]
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Just as familiar as any spy thriller, not quite as stylish as any of Soderbergh's Ocean's 11 films, and as unoriginal as any caper film, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre [...]
Children of the Corn (2020)
If nothing else, Kurt Wimmer's Children of the Corn reboot successfully answers the age-old question plaguing the horror genre, "Did this need to be remade?" with a resounding "No." The [...]
My Happy Ending
My Happy Ending, a slightly moving but uneven weepie about a fading actress attempting a career comeback as she discovers she has stage-four cancer and may only have a few [...]