Film Reviews & Insights
H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name. Claire Foy plays Helen MacDonald, an academic in England who is about to lose her residency [...]
Return to Silent Hill
In 2006, filmmaker Christophe Gans made the film adaptation of the popular Konami survival horror game franchise Silent Hill. The film was a decent hit, raking in over $100 million [...]
KPop Demon Hunters
Korean Pop is not something this reviewer is overly familiar with. Going in to a film like K-Pop Demon Hunters, one might think that at least a surface familiarity would be [...]
Primate
Johannes Roberts has been a reliable source of genre filmmaking for some time now. Largely delivering singularly-focused schlocky entertainment that delivers on their high-concepts, Roberts may not be above good [...]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The fourth installment in the 28 Days Later film series and part of the double bill that is a direct continuation of 2025's 28 Years Later, the post-apocalyptic horror film [...]
Sound of Falling
Plot and story are intimately connected yet not always the same thing. A film can have a great story but a weak plot, or a great plot and weak story. [...]
Dead Man’s Wire
Dead Man's Wire is a type of film that any director-for-hire could have easily gotten the job done for this crime thriller. However, household legend Gus Van Sant has turned [...]
Is This Thing On?
Is This Thing On? Is the best film Bradley Cooper has made as a director, and it is not even close. This is because the film is the first time he [...]
Arco
Arco is an at times delirious science fiction animated film from France. There are echoes of Valerian, and of the works of Studio Ghibli. Concerning the misadventure of a ten [...]
A Little Prayer
A Little Prayer is one of those films that comes along all too rarely. Writer and director Angus MacLachlan, who wrote the screenplay for Junebug, has fashioned a simple yet [...]
The Plague
Very much in the vein of William Golding's Lord of the Flies novel, Charlie Polinger's debut feature that premiered at the Un Certain Regard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival [...]