Film Reviews & Insights
The Machine
Anyone familiar with Youtube around 2016 will be remember a stand-up comedy bit that was shared everywhere. The bit, coming from comedian Bert Kreischer in his special The Machine, was [...]
Sancturary
A thorny and unconventional love story, Zachary Wigon's sophomore feature Sancturary plays out more like a modern expansion of Steven Shanberg's 2002 indie classic Secretary, about two people bouncing in [...]
The Little Mermaid
Continuing the spotty track record of Disney live-action remakes, Rob Marshall's adaptation of the animated classic, largely responsible for ushering in the Disney Renaissance, continuing with the likes of Beauty [...]
You Hurt My Feelings
New York City is proving to be a comfortable setting for the greatly skilled Nicole Holofcener. From her breakthrough indie debut Walking and Talking to Enough Said and co-writing Can [...]
White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
The new White Men Can’t Jump remake, helmed by director Calmatic, has a lot to like, although it still comes off a lot less satisfying than the 1992 original. The [...]
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
One of the most heart wrenching events in entertainment is the sudden cessation of a burgeoning career, particularly that of a universally well-liked, talented star. So when movie and TV [...]
Fast X
It’s hard for any franchise whose previous film literally went to space to be brought back down to earth, especially the Fast and Furious franchise, whose characters have defied the [...]
Moon Garden
Centering a film on a child’s performance can be a great risk for a filmmaker. On one hand, as all of us were once children, and many are parents, there [...]
The Mother
JLO is a Mother. She's also now THE Mother. Yes, that is not only the given name for her character, but the title of the film, in which Lopez states, [...]
Master Gardener
A relatively clunky and implausible character study about a troubled man attempting to atone for his past deeds is served up with mixed results in Paul Schrader's Master Gardner. Channeling [...]
Monica
Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro revisits the central themes of alienation, identity, and family that were found in his first two films, Medas (2013) and Hannah (2017), to even greater impact [...]