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 [...]

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 [...]

Nearly three years removed from the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns, more and more films are including the pandemic in their storytelling. This goes for dramas like last year’s The [...]

Skinamarink, will certainly draw comparisons to stripped down ultra-low budget horror movies like Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch, Open Water, or even David Lynch's Eraserhead. The horror in the film [...]

It's now been seven years since the Swedish comedy-drama A Man Called Ove (2015) became an Oscar nominee for Best International Film and Best Makeup, and it was a critical and [...]

The autobiographical, or at least semi-autobiographical, film has been a hot topic in the last few years. From Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir films and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, to this year’s [...]

At first, this "biopic" on Weird Al Yankovic starts by hitting all the beats and formulas of the Hollywood biopic genre, before co-writer and director Eric Appel and co-writer/producer "Weird [...]