Stop! That! Train!
An original screenplay by World of Wonder—the L.A.-based production company specializing in LGBTQ+ documentaries and series—this movie shares the comedic sensibilities of John Waters and Charles Busch drag classics like [...]
Silent Friend
Silent Friend is an unusual work, told in three segments, about the ways in which memory and recognition work, both between people and in a thematic or metaphorical sense. Here, [...]
Backrooms
In the words of Clémence Poséy’s mysterious Barbara in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, “don’t try to understand it, feel it”; the only sentiment I can think of to anyone not familiar [...]
Pressure
There have been many films about war and many about the Second World War. A seeming majority of those have centered on either combat or rescue missions. Pressure is in [...]
Passenger
“Sometimes when you get haunted, it’s like stepping on gum. You… take it with you.” So said famous (and infamous) demonologist and ghost hunter Ed Warren, of The Conjuring fame, in the [...]
Tuner
Tuner is a relatively simple story, and it is a film that offers no true innovations, in plot or character, but is rather about the how well it is told, rather [...]
Mortal Kombat 2
Chalk it up to Covid brain or a severe lack of expectations, but this particular writer had enough splattery fun with the 2021 reboot of Mortal Kombat. A big-screen spectacle [...]
Mother Mary
Set at the intersection of pop music and high fashion, David Lowery’s latest psychological thriller aims for the intimacy of a semi-chamber piece. Though the narrative feels slightly uneven, it [...]
The Christophers
Prolific and skillful filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's engrossing, interior look at a stubborn artist's life—where the film blends elements of a caper movie and a dark comedy with segments that feel [...]
The Stranger
Francois Ozon’s new film, The Stranger, based on Albert Camus’ famed novel, is a coldly distant film, reflective of its central character. Shot in stark black and white-reminiscent of the recent Ripley series-the [...]