Dumb Money
We have had many films be released about the current century's most trying historical events ranging from 9/11, to the IRAQ War, and the 2008 Financial crises to name just [...]
El Conde
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Spencer) pulls another famous historical figure back from the dead, this time for a deftly executed satire about the murderous dictator, Augusto Pinochet. El Conde [...]
A Haunting in Venice
In 2017, Kenneth Branagh, often an adaptor of classic literature in his work as an actor/director, set his sights on a new author and character: Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. While [...]
The Nun 2
James Wan's 2013 sensation The Conjuring kicked off a franchise that has not only sustained itself for ten years now, but currently ranks as the highest-grossing horror franchise of all [...]
The Equalizer 3
Oscar-winner Denzel Washington had never starred in a sequel throughout his eclectic career until The Equalizer 2, the follow-up to his popular reteaming with his Training Day director Antoine Fuqua. [...]
2008 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2008
It was an election year with a terrible recession. After eight years of the Bush Administration, the public grew very tired of cronyism, corruption, and war. Reflecting back, we had [...]
Bottoms
Familiarly conceived but a highly amusing satire about a self-defense women's club for unpopular misfit females who have been ostracized by their classmates and faculty. Emma Seligman's (Shiva Baby) sophomore [...]
Fall Movie Preview 2023
by Robert Joseph Butler and Bart Woinski Summer 2023 was quite an unusual summer movie season. As SAG joined the WGA for the strike, we saw so many films underperform [...]
Gran Turismo
Video game adaptations are having one hell of a year. From the billion dollar juggernaut The Super Mario Bros Movie and the highly-acclaimed tour de force that is The Last of [...]
Birth/Rebirth
The latest entry in the budding maternal/pregnancy horror subgenre, Birth/Rebirth, proves what fresh talents can create with a unique vision, despite using familiar building blocks. In this case, director and [...]