Fool’s Paradise
Hollywood is certainly a hollow place, an industry that chews actors and celebrities right up only to spit them right out, as the old cliche goes. By holding the industry [...]
The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl, the debut film by Laurel Palmet, could more aptly be titled: “that Starling girl,” just by the way it victimizes its main character alone. It’s a story about [...]
BlackBerry
In the ever-present biopic genre, the rise of technology companies has meant the rise of film and television stories about the people behind these companies. Pirates of Silicon Valley, Jobs, [...]
Chile ’76
A story of paranoia and authoritarian government in 1976 Santiago that advances into an intelligent political thriller, Chile '76 is the latest film from Chilean filmmaker Manuela Martelli. It boasts [...]
Clock
Hulu's latest fertility horror-thriller, Clock, joins a growing pool of similar features more relevant than ever, relying on a surprisingly fresh premise to stand out, but not much else. Whereas [...]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Less than ten years ago, Marvel studios took what was deemed their first real risk, making a film featuring a d-list roster of Marvel heroes, alongside their most popular heroes, [...]
The Eight Mountains
Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen makes another film outside of his homeland but returns to his smaller-scale emotional dramas like The Broken Circle Breakdown with The Eight Mountains, a long [...]
Carmen
With another foray of a known artist embarking on film directing, French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied brings his passions to the big screen in a singularly artful and highly [...]