Film Reviews & Insights
Problemista
The endlessly screwed-up immigration and economic exploitation that make the American immigration experience challenging are on full display in Problemista. Writer-director and co-star Julio Torres creates a messy, uneven piece [...]
The Truth vs. Alex Jones
The Truth vs. Alex Jones, an HBO release, which debuted at South by Southwest on March 11, 2024, is the latest in a long line of strong HBO documentaries, including [...]
Dogman
The French director Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) is one of the more idiosyncratic film makers working in mainstream movies. His latest work, Dogman, is another unusual [...]
Exhuma
Exhuma, the new film from South Korean director Jang Jae-hyun is a film of many parts, but two halves, and both offer a lot to viewers, though how much depends [...]
Road House (2024)
Director Doug Liman (Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity) does not have a track record that indicates he would know better than to have remade Road House, the 1989 cult classic [...]
Immaculate
The newest religious horror film on the block is pretty respectable, but its sin is failing to do enough to stand out in a highly competitive modern cinematic landscape. The [...]
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The main characters from the old and the new Ghostbusters films find themselves once again squaring off against ghosts, ghouls, and red-tape bureaucracy in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. After Ghostbusters: Afterlife [...]
Late Night with the Devil
A descendant of the Found Footage sub genre, the latest film from Australian filmmaking duo Cameron & Colin Cairnes is the kind of indie gem that makes horror such an [...]
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Nearly 20 years after the Romania New Wave took international cinema by storm with such titles as The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, and [...]
Hundreds of Beavers
Hundreds of Beavers is certainly a film. Is it a good film, or an enjoyable one? That may depend on many factors, including your tolerance for the bizarre, zany, and downright, [...]
Love Lies Bleeding
Director Rose Glass’ feature directorial debut Saint Maud became a casualty of the pandemic, seeing its release delayed and delayed, ultimately dumped in early 2021 with little fanfare. The religious [...]