The Painter and the Thief
The documentary film "The Painter and the Thief" revisits familiar ideas about unconventional love that has been explored in numerous indie films. The central premise of director Benjamin Ree's second [...]
The Trip to Greece
Reprising their roles from "The Trip," "The Trip to Italy", "The Trip to Spain," we now have the fourth installment of "The Trip" movie series with "The Trip to Greece," [...]
Scoob!
Since the late 1960s, one of the longest standing icons in American animation is Scooby-Doo and the members of Mystery Inc. Adding a slight horror-spin to Saturday morning cartoons, their [...]
Blood and Money
The title of John Barr's glum and equally taut "Blood and Money" is an unimaginative movie title, but the movie is not. While certainly a mixed bag, the film goes [...]
Crew Call Podcast 5/8/2020
Our podcast appearances on MPI Crew Call is now on iHeart Radio. Give it a listen as podcast host Sara Mahmood along with Defacto film reviewers Noah Damron and Robert [...]
How to Build a Girl
Coky Giedroyc's "How to Build a Girl" offers an inside, honest look as being a teenager that holds some charm, but is vastly inconsistent with its tonal shifts, even when [...]
Spaceship Earth
The subtext of Matt Wolf's highly essential documentary, “Spaceship Earth ,” is just as relevant as the text, in this case, a rather straightforward documentary about a group of scientists [...]
The Wretched
It’s often difficult for any modern horror flick to feel fresh or become a game changer particularly in the case of this low-budget, homegrown film produced here in Michigan (reportedly [...]
Deerskin
A oddly callous, offbeat quirky dark comedy, “Deerskin” emerges as one of the most unpredictable films to be released so far this year, a small, absurdist and well-scripted film that's [...]
The Willoughbys
Since certain events have forced us to stay at home, some of us may be spending more and more time with our parents. The global health crisis has, in some [...]