Using a cast almost entirely comprised of non-professional actors, aside from the well-regarded French legends who provide the narration, the director, Pierre Creton, has created a work that is unlikely to find a large audience but which is worth sitting down to see.
Far more surrealist and avant-garde in approach than horror, Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature, I Saw the TV Glow, is, for better or for worse, going to defy the audience's expectations. [...]
Francis Galluppi’s feature directorial debut, The Last Stop in Yuma County, is a simple, yet entertaining crime thriller with purpose-driven performances and a fair amount of action as well. Galluppi, [...]
“Apes together strong” At the end of 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes, Caesar (Andy Serkis) had successfully gotten most of the apes under his care to a [...]
What a time to be in a resurgence for genuinely sexy romance films. No, not deliberately edgy fair such as the Fifty Shades films or even worse, the Netflix 365 [...]
Advocates of the studio's long-standing appetite for films based on beloved television shows will have a strong case for The Fall Guy. An action-packed comedy that also holds romance is [...]
Jeanne du Barry, the new film from Maiwenn, who both directed and stars in the title role, is a bit of a stunner, just in terms of the visuals. It [...]
We Grown Now is the latest independent feature by Minhai Baig, whose previous film Hala was also about youths sorting out their uncertain lives in Chicago. I enjoyed that film, [...]
The new spider-attack creature feature Infested (Fr. Vermines) is a step away from the nastiest and most depraved of the New French Extremity of the early-to-mid 2000s. However, it effectively [...]
Boy Kills World is a pastiche of homages and genres, even forms. The film is packed with some stunning imagery, yet none of it is especially novel or clever. This [...]
