Film Reviews & Insights
Good on Paper
liza Shlesinger's amusing but clunky Good on Paper, directed by actress and Hollywood TV director, Kimmy Gatewood, is mostly a clever and highly watchable rom-com that is now streaming on [...]
Zola
Writer-director Janicza Bravo will certainly be a familiar name for her latest film, her sophomore feature titled Zola, which may be the very first film that I'm aware of that [...]
F9: The Fast Saga
The Fast & Furious franchise has had one of the stranger journeys in any modern film franchise. What started out centering on illegal street racing in the streets of LA, [...]
Luca
The latest from Pixar, and unfortunately the second in a row to forgo a theatrical release as a Disney+ exclusive, Luca, is a slight, but heart-warming tale set in the [...]
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
Comedy sequels tend to not have the best reputation, and for good reason. For every 22 Jump Street or Hot Shots Part Deux, there's a Caddyshack 2, Zoolander 2, Weekend [...]
Summer of 85
Summer of 85, Francois Ozon's latest film is a sensually tragic, involving, deeply flawed, and cautionary saga of first love, based on the 1982 novel Dance On My Grave by [...]
In the Heights
In the Heights, the screen version of the highly successful Broadway musical written by Quira Alegria Hudes and Lin-Manuel Mirananda, is a very energetic film musical that should please audiences [...]
Undine
A uniquely layered, and often murky German love story with strong political subtext about the troubled history between the cities of East and West Berlin, Undine is the recent film [...]
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
It's hard not to go into The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It with a bit of skepticism. Conjuring 1 & 2 filmmaker James Wan, while serving as a [...]
Port Authority
It's quite liberating and remarkable how in the last few years or so, transgender representation in cinema, television, and other forms of media is beginning to get true representation in [...]
A Quiet Place Part 2
The 2018 smash hit, A Quiet Place, was the kind of success no one saw coming. A fairly low budget genre film starring one of the Hollywood's most treasured "it [...]