Film Reviews & Insights
Gran Turismo
Video game adaptations are having one hell of a year. From the billion dollar juggernaut The Super Mario Bros Movie and the highly-acclaimed tour de force that is The Last of [...]
Birth/Rebirth
The latest entry in the budding maternal/pregnancy horror subgenre, Birth/Rebirth, proves what fresh talents can create with a unique vision, despite using familiar building blocks. In this case, director and [...]
Blue Beetle
The current state of DC films is as troubled as it has ever been. Following a series of commercial flops in Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The [...]
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Among the many adaptations of Bram Stoker's classic novel, none have ever focused on just a mere chapter. Adapting the chapter consisting of the captain's log of the doomed ship, [...]
Shortcomings
First and foremost, Shortcomings is a tour de force of one man's hypocrisy and dramatic irony. Asian-American filmmaker Randall Park makes his feature directorial debut chronicling the frustrating life of [...]
Passages
Passages is an intimate, well-acted human drama that showcases just how great of a talent Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos are, as is co-writer and director Ira Sachs, [...]
Til Death Do Us Part
Recently, Netflix's latest action hit, Extraction 2, achieved streaming success and critical acclaim, but not every John Wick-esque beat-em-up hits the proverbial mark. See director Timothy Woodward Jr.'s ironically formless [...]
Dreamin’ Wild
Hollywood loves a biopic. And within that greater subgenre, an area of deep focus is the music biopic. From 1909’s Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to last year’s Elvis, filmmakers [...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
There's a simple hard truth out there that is difficult for many to swallow. There hasn't been an actual good film adaptation of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". The classic 1987 [...]
Earth Mama
Another immersion in the exploration of systematic oppression for Black cinema, Earth Mama is a deeply artful portrait of a young pregnant woman's resilience against the foster care system. Through [...]
Theater Camp
We have experienced theatrics being mocked in mockumentary fashion before with Christopher Guests Waiting for Guffman, among many other subcultures. Molly Gordon and co-writer and co-director Nick Lieberman show signs [...]