The Lesson
While adaptations of novels often serve as the basis of films, there are also many occasions where a writer themselves, whether real or fictional, has been the subject of a [...]
Asteroid City
Sophisticated, meta, and deadpan, Asteroid City finds world-renowned auteur Wes Anderson recapturing a similar story as he has in the past but working on a much larger canvas where he [...]
Blue Jean
The story of the LGBTQ community across the world is a story of struggle. Struggle for acceptance, struggle for rights, and in many cases, struggle for survival. While the United [...]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Just shy of five years ago, the unexpected Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a shot in the arm to the comic book genre. With its distinct approach to [...]
Moon Garden
Centering a film on a child’s performance can be a great risk for a filmmaker. On one hand, as all of us were once children, and many are parents, there [...]
Monica
Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro revisits the central themes of alienation, identity, and family that were found in his first two films, Medas (2013) and Hannah (2017), to even greater impact [...]
The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl, the debut film by Laurel Palmet, could more aptly be titled: “that Starling girl,” just by the way it victimizes its main character alone. It’s a story about [...]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Less than ten years ago, Marvel studios took what was deemed their first real risk, making a film featuring a d-list roster of Marvel heroes, alongside their most popular heroes, [...]
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Adapting older source material to the screen with charming and honest effect, filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig's sophomore feature, Are You There God? It's Me, Marget, delivers a poignant portrait of [...]
Evil Dead Rise
The dream duo of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are back with another entry in the popular horror franchise, The Evil Dead. Now overseeing Irish director Lee Cronin, Evil Dead [...]