Good on Paper
liza Shlesinger's amusing but clunky Good on Paper, directed by actress and Hollywood TV director, Kimmy Gatewood, is mostly a clever and highly watchable rom-com that is now streaming on [...]
Summer of 85
Summer of 85, Francois Ozon's latest film is a sensually tragic, involving, deeply flawed, and cautionary saga of first love, based on the 1982 novel Dance On My Grave by [...]
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
It's hard not to go into The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It with a bit of skepticism. Conjuring 1 & 2 filmmaker James Wan, while serving as a [...]
Cruella
Cruella, Disney's latest reinvention of the classic story, which opens in theaters and on Disney+, is an amusing, stylish, and equally exhausting film to endure. The film overstays its welcome [...]
The Woman in the Window
Paying homage to the title of the1944 Fritz Lang noir masterpiece and easily working on the concept of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Joe Wright's (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) A Woman [...]
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Very much in the vein of a 90s natural disaster or man vs. nature style thriller, one that reminds you of such 90 era action thrillers films like Cliffhanger, The [...]
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The melodramatic detours and pokey pacing in The United States vs. Billie Holiday certainly speaks to Lee Daniels sensibilities, overwrought and overstuffed with many raw emotions, and is conventional to [...]
I Care a Lot
Another satire on capitalism and the corruption of the American dream, I Care a Lot is a playful, but deliberately mean-spirited dark comedy about greed and determination that defies audience [...]
PVT Chat
The evolution of the film noir is a fascinating one to track. Early works like Double Indemnity or Detour reflect a period that might seem entirely alien to a modern [...]
The Little Things
A neo-noir crime thriller about a serial killer that terrifies female victims in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, The Little Things, writer-director John Lee Hancock's latest film is of [...]