Thor: Love and Thunder
When filmmaker Taika Waititi, known for quirky, heartfelt indies such as Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What We Do in the Shadows, joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it felt like [...]
Murina
A dramatically charged coming-of-age story about a young-woman who is soon to be 18 years old and yearns for her own personal freedom from her deeply controlling father and complicit [...]
Both Sides of the Blade (Fire)
A highly engaging, ultimately intimate drama about a middle-aged woman who is caught in love with two men in her life, Both Sides of the Blade (also titled Fire) is a [...]
The Innocents
It’s not often you find hidden gems under the large stockpile of films today, but when you do, it's astonishingly satisfying. These days, we are in the Golden Age of [...]
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Illumination's Despicable Me franchise has dominated the culture since the very first film, released in 2010. The story of likable supervillain with a heart of gold, Gru, and his adoptive [...]
The Best Films of 2022…So Far
It's 2022 and regular moviegoing feels normalized again, only back from a long, 2-year pandemic, but so are many superlative blockbusters that are pulling in audiences, with such box-office spectacles [...]
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Before Mike Judge struck gold with his biggest creative endeavor, King of The Hill, it’s predecessor, Beavis and Butt-Head was a hit on MTV. The show first aired on March [...]
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
As charming as any Pixar or Hollywood family film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the feature film version of the 2010 successful You Tube short film of the [...]
Neptune Frost
Saul Willliams teams up with Rwandan playwright and actress Anisia Uzeyman for their directorial debut, titled Neptune Frost, an otherworldly but partly successful film that blends sci-fi with musical numbers. [...]
Spiderhead
Now, it’s no surprise that Netflix produces its fair share of films every year, under various genres, around 100 films are released each year from Netflix alone. With such a [...]