Film Reviews & Insights
I Want Your Sex
Legendary indie auteur Gregg Araki’s latest erotic dark comedy, I Want Your Sex, may lack the dreamlike surrealism of his earlier work, but it taps directly into the central obsession [...]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home was a pivotal moment for 21st century cinematic nostalgia whose incorporation of past Spider-Men Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield caused audiences around the world to [...]
The Odyssey – Barry Shanley’s Take
Warning: In order to adequately compare this adaptation to the source material, I will be discussing spoilers from both the text and the film. A story like Homer’s The Odyssey - and [...]
Motor City
Director Potsy Ponciroli made a name for himself in the indie world with his word-of-mouth hit Old Henry in late 2021. His follow-up, 2024's Greedy People failed to capitalize off [...]
Her Private Hell
With Her Private Hell, Danish visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn continues the slow-burn, neon-bathed, abstract genre filmmaking he began shaping with 2013's polarizing Only God Forgives. Marking his long-awaited return [...]
The Odyssey–Robert Butler’s Take
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek story, The Odyssey, is nothing short of a cinematic miracle. This is not a sterile, classicized myth preserved in amber; it is a [...]
The Odyssey
After finally winning his Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture for his near-billion-dollar grossing Oppenheimer, filmmaking titan Christopher Nolan returns with his most ambitious endeavour yet. Nolan, who has [...]
Rose of Nevada
Some films are wholly original. Rose of Nevada seems to want to believe it is original but it is not, and that is fine. Instead, it is a pastiche of [...]
Horsegirls
Horsegirls is the debut film from Lauren Meyering starring Lillian Carrier as Margarita, a twenty-two year old grown and independent (mostly) autistic woman. She lives with her mother Sandy, played [...]
Evil Dead Burn
[I]n Evil Dead Burn ... the atrocities never seem to end, resulting in possibly the cruelest franchise entry to date.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
This is one of those rare comedies with a title so brilliant it sets an incredibly high bar for the rest of the movie to clear. Thankfully, Gail Daughtry and [...]