Film Reviews & Insights
Jurassic World: Dominion
Oh, how so much can change in 30 years. Looking back at Steven Spielberg's original classic, Jurassic Park, it's amazing just how much wonder came from seeing dinosaurs on the [...]
Hustle
An older man down on his luck. A kid from the wrong side of the tracks with a checkered past trying to make good. The power of a good coach [...]
Fire Island
Over the years, LGBTQ+ representation has widened and become more mainstream in the world of cinema, which is remarkable. Films that have garnered the bulk of popularity include Barry Jenkins’ [...]
Benediction
Terrence Davies' skillful direction and the engaging storytelling of Siegfried Sassoon's life are just some of the highlights in this luminous biographical drama. From an original screenplay by Davies based [...]
Crimes of the Future
A dystopian planet where the human population is nearly extinct and human autonomy is transforming, or rather mutating, is just the starting point for David Cronenberg's provocative and effectively grotesque [...]
Watcher
After a couple majorly successful shorts and making a splash with the fan-favorite "Hail Raatma" segment from last year's anthology horror film, V/H/S/94, director Chloe Okuno arrives with her feature [...]
Hit the Road
The first feature from Panah Panahi holds some of the same cinematic traits and sensibilities as his father, Jafar Panahi. Like his father, the film also delivers some subtle modern [...]
Emergency
For lack of a better word, there comes a difficulty when writing and directing films revolving around adolescent characters. The difficulty is, how said characters are written overall so that [...]
The Bob’s Burgers Movie
The jump to television to the big screen has proven highly successful for such animated shows as South Park and The Simpsons, which makes all the sense in the world [...]
Montana Story
In case you were wondering, Montana Story is in fact an American independent drama that's setting is, well, in Montana. It's smaller scale than the series Yellowstone, with just a [...]
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick elevates nostalgia, and similar to its predecessor, this energetic and witty follow-up to the 1986 Bruckheimer produced/late Tony Scott directed action movie classic titled Top Gun delivers [...]