Film Reviews & Insights
The Monkey
Last year's thriller Longlegs, from writer/director Osgood Perkins, was among the biggest successes of last year, garnering strong critical and commercial acclaim, grossing over $125 million on a budget of [...]
Parthenope
Paolo Sorrentino has been one of the masters of cinema for two decades, but sadly, his latest film, Parthenope, does little to burnish his reputation. Known for films full of visual [...]
Captain America: Brave New World
As the first MCU film since last year's Deadpool & Wolverine, the newest entry in the ongoing saga comes after numerous delays, from both strikes, to creative overhauls involving reshoots, [...]
Heart Eyes
Coming just a week after the unique sci-fi thriller Companion is another original genre film opening early in the year that is much better than you might anticipate. A Valentine’s [...]
Companion
It's not often the first month of the year delivers a terrific horror thriller, yet here we are. This past month has given us some nice surprises in the hilarious [...]
Armand
Armand is a story about the nature of truth, and perception. It is about the lengths one is willing to go to exact a toll, and how that affects others around [...]
Presence
Highly prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh once delivered some innovation with his skillfully mounted ghost story Presence, in which he once again utilizes digital cameras to capture the aesthetic of the [...]
Flight Risk
Much can be said, and has been said, about the problematic nature of Mel Gibson. Setting aside his previous antics and despicable behavior, the man does know how to make [...]
Wolf Man
With three prior botched attempts at relaunching their own Universal Classic Monsters Universe with the 2004 flop Van Helsing, 2014's Dracula Untold, and the disastrous 2017 Tom Cruise vehicle The [...]
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, is an historical drama based on the 1858 case of a Bolognese Jewish family whose six-year old son, Edgardo, was forcibly removed from their [...]
A Traveler’s Needs
A Traveler’s Needs, the latest work from South Korean film maker Hong Sang-soo, stars Isabelle Huppert as a woman who, finding herself in South Korea, has come up with a [...]