Cruella
Cruella, Disney's latest reinvention of the classic story, which opens in theaters and on Disney+, is an amusing, stylish, and equally exhausting film to endure. The film overstays its welcome [...]
The Dry
A major hit in its native land of Australia, Robert Connolly's The Dry is the kind of film that makes one excited about the future of storytelling. It's no mistake [...]
Riders of Justice
Structured as an action thriller, Riders of Justice, Anders Thomas-Jensen latest Danish contribution to the crime thriller, is an entertaining character-driven story that offers some characterization and sophisticated themes with [...]
The Killing of Two Lovers
The Killing of Two Lovers is a domestic drama that aims to explore a collapsed marriage that also holds the mood and atmosphere of a slow-burn thriller. The Killing of [...]
Army of the Dead
If you've seen any film from director Zack Snyder, you'll know the man knows how to open a film with a bang. Snyder's latest epic, Army of the Dead, [...]
The Woman in the Window
Paying homage to the title of the1944 Fritz Lang noir masterpiece and easily working on the concept of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Joe Wright's (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) A Woman [...]
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Very much in the vein of a 90s natural disaster or man vs. nature style thriller, one that reminds you of such 90 era action thrillers films like Cliffhanger, The [...]
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
It all started with a little movie that could. The brainchild of two Australian film grads in James Wan and Leigh Whannell, Saw was a scruffy little thriller that channeled [...]
Mainstream
Gia Coppola's sophomore follow-up Mainstream in some aspects reminds me of Sidney Lumet's 1976 masterpiece Network; both works are scathing media satires and are hyperreal in tone and approach--although Network [...]
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Now offering six of their own animated productions each year, the Netflix team has taken the animated feature into a new terrain of impressive and narrative design that is now [...]