Film Reviews & Insights
Orphan: First Kill
Rhoda the Bad Seed, Damien, Regan, The Grady Twins, The Children of the Corn and a multitude of others. Creepy children are a long-standing tradition of horror cinema. When Orphan [...]
Fall
Fall is equal parts thrilling and engaging so long as the viewer accepts the type of movie they are watching. Scott Mann’s latest film is a minimalist one with enough [...]
Sharp Stick
Sharp Stick, Lena Dunham's first feature since her 2010 breakthrough indie darling Tiny Furniture, is a fearless sex comedy that plays like an inferior episode of Girls, Diablo Cody wannabes, [...]
Spin Me Round
While there are many laughs that last throughout the course of the running time in Spin Me Round, the fifth film from writer-director Jeff Baena (Horse Girl, The Little Hours, [...]
Rogue Agent
People, on the whole, can be gullible – they want to believe a good story. Particularly if there is something exciting in it which gives them a chance to transcend [...]
Emily the Criminal
Emily the Criminal is a gripping neo-noir film that explores a human story of desperation beneath the surface, looking beyond the modern-day desperations of a debt nation and the horrors [...]
Summering
A discovery of a dead body by a small band of pre-teen girls becomes a reflection of life and a coming-of-age portrait of friendship in James Ponsoldt’s (The End of [...]
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Some dark comedy and modern satire on narcissistic millennials and Gen Z-ers can't quite disguise the Clue origins of Bodies Bodies Bodies. A highly enjoyable and thrilling whodunit set mostly [...]
Prey
The last time we saw the iconic creature from John McTiernan's 1987 action classic, Predator, was just four years ago. 2018's The Predator, written and directed by Shane Black, who [...]
Vengeance
A film called Vengeance might seem simple at first glance, but writer/director/star B.J. Novak (of “The Office” fame) has a lot more in mind with his first film. The setup [...]
Bullet Train
David Leitch has had one of the more notable career trajectories of the past decade. A former stuntman known for his work on everything from The Matrix films, to 300, [...]