Film Reviews & Insights
Infinity Pool
With Infinity Pool, his third and boldest film thus far, Canadian filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, proves yet again he can produce and direct another original screenplay that not only carries on [...]
Shotgun Wedding
Since the release of the critical and commercial 2019 hit Hustlers that found star Jennifer Lopez horrifically snubbed of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, the hope would be that [...]
Living
Remakes are a film tradition almost as old as filmmaking itself, with Georges Melies remaking a Lumiere brothers short, both made in 1896. While it would seem most worthwhile to [...]
Close
Two teenage boys find their innocent intimacy and friendship in turmoil during the new school year in Close, Lukas Dhont's sensitive and potent sophomore feature that was just nominated for [...]
Missing
Over the course of the 2010's, we've seen more and more films using social media and technology as a tool for storytelling. After the "found footage" craze sizzled out, we [...]
Women Talking
Since the #MeToo movement, many women have come forward to reveal unflattering details about the abuse they have endured and suffered from, which has been covered up for years by [...]
Alice, Darling
By channeling the tropes of psychological thrillers that are about romantic obsession, Mary Nighy's directorial debut Alice, Darling is gender-reversed like the 1996 iconic thriller Fear, but it ends up [...]
The Son
Films portraying characters with mental illness are a common occurrence. While often clumsy in such portrayals in the past, writers and directors have, on the whole, gotten better over time [...]
When You Finish Saving the World
When You Finish Saving the World is a familiar, offbeat Sundance family comedy-drama about family neuroses and mother-son dynamics from actor-turned filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg in his feature-length directorial debut. The [...]
Sick
Nearly three years removed from the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns, more and more films are including the pandemic in their storytelling. This goes for dramas like last year’s The [...]
Plane
Gerard Butler has managed to carve out a successful path for himself as one of Hollywood’s few remaining action stars still selling tickets at the box office. While most have [...]