Forbidden Fruits
Director Meredith Alloway's feature debut titled Forbidden Fruits, based on Lily Houghton's 2019 play, is a witchy horror-comedy that starts clever and features superb casting. All the actresses are terrific [...]
A Magnificent Life
The third animated feature from French writer/director Sylvain Chomet, A Magnificent Life doesn't quite reach the emotional impact or narrative innovation of his previous masterpieces, The Triplets of Belleville and [...]
Reminders of Him
Author Colleen Hoover seems to be the new "it" author to adapt in Hollywood. After the smash hit success of her novel adaptation It Ends With Us -- that's before [...]
Pillion
It is the duty of storytellers to explore various areas of humanity and its behavior, ideally without judgement or bias to achieve the most honest portrayal of their subject as [...]
Crime 101
Bart Layton's 2017 breakthrough film, American Animals, was a unique and ambitious attempt at telling a true-crime story through the fusion of fictional and non-fiction storytelling. The filmmaker began his [...]
A Private Life
Co-writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski revisits the whole American in Paris trope in her recent black comedy mystery thriller A Private Life, about a highly regarded psychiatrist, Lilian Steiner (Jodie [...]
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
The second movie in the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise is kind of a win. This isn’t in the traditional sense; what makes cinema great need not necessarily be provided in a [...]
Wicked: For Good
Last year's Wicked was a sensational adaptation of one of modern pop culture's most influential and defining musicals. Splitting the 2003 Broadway musical into two parts, Part One was both [...]
The Running Man (2025)
What a year it has been for Stephen King adaptations. This summer's The Life of Chuck was a moving and life-affirming story of a man's life told in reverse. The [...]
Radu Jude’s Dracula
Trash cinema is a term not lightly used by this reviewer. First, how does one define or intend the use of that term? John Waters and Andy Warhol both made [...]