Inside
Willem Dafoe has always been one of the most fearless and feral actors of our modern age, testing the limits of his performances and taking very challenging projects and elevating [...]
Moving On
In his previous film, writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Grandma) ventured into grief and how to rekindle friendships and eventually find closure in the Netflix comedy-drama titled Fatherhood. With [...]
65
Audiences may never have expected to see the words "Adam Driver" and "dinosaurs" in the same sentence before, let alone the same movie, but the newly-released sci-fi action blockbuster 65 [...]
5th Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate Oscar weekend, we are pleased to announce the 5thAnnual Defacto Film Awards. This year, we did things a lot more democratically as opposed to doing separate ballots in [...]
Scream VI
Last year's Scream -- or Scream 5 as most reasonable folks refer to it, saw the "legacyquel/requel" formula gets its comeuppance by way of the Scream treatment. Taking a bite [...]
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Jamie Dack’s debut film, Palm Trees and Power Lines, is a stylistic feature with a great cast. The would-be coming of age drama descends into the manipulative dynamic of an [...]
Champions
Overly banal and cliché, a U.S. remake of the Spanish sports comedy Campeones (2018) about the adventures of a disgraced foul-mouthed minor league basketball coach who finds himself in deep [...]
95th Annual Academy Award Predictions
Oscar Predictions 2023 Oscar night quickly approaches, taking place this Sunday, March 12. The ceremony will be hosted for the third time by the affable Jimmy Kimmel. Following a [...]
Creed 3
One of the great Cinderella stories of cinema is the original Rocky, not only for the titular character, but also for the films writer/star Sylvester Stallone. A film that not [...]
Lamya’s Poem
The power of the written word and the stories of our cultures are monumental building blocks to people everywhere. This is true across all races, creeds, and religions. Our stories [...]