The Last Stop in Yuma County
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, [...]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
“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 [...]
The Idea of You
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 [...]
The Fall Guy
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
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
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, [...]
Infested
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
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 [...]
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
After cashing in his chips as a journeyman studio filmmaker for the better part of the 2010's, director Guy Ritchie has been on a streak of his own modestly budgeted [...]
Abigail
Move over, M3gan; there's a new dancing horror princess in town, and her name is Abigail. The latest genre effort from the hit filmmaking collective Radio Silence (directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin [...]