Film Reviews & Insights
Good Night Oppy
From the earliest days, Man has looked to the skies and wondered what is out there. As technology advanced, humans have been able to travel first to orbit around the [...]
Violent Night
Filmmaker Tommy Wirkola is best known for making high concept genre films that often dabble in the ridiculous. This is the director who has given us two Nazi zombie movies, [...]
Sr.
Undeniably charming and equally bittersweet, Sr. is an unconventionally crafted documentary that engages and moves just as much as any other narrative out right now. With a savvy style and [...]
The Eternal Daughter
Closure and catharsis are certainly the themes explored, but at its core, Johanna Hogg's latest feature, The Eternal Daughter, is an examination of artistic healing, isolation, and motherhood. Incisive, melancholic, [...]
Utama
A simple story of aging and reconciliation between an elderly Quechua-speaking married couple and their grandson where they reside in their Altiplano Basin community that is within the Andes in [...]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
When writer/director Rian Johnson’s witty Knives Out was released over Thanksgiving 2019, it was seen as a massive breath of fresh air. An original whodunnit with an all-star cast and [...]
The Inspection
The autobiographical, or at least semi-autobiographical, film has been a hot topic in the last few years. From Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir films and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, to this year’s [...]
Bones and All
An impulsive misfit finds true love with a mysterious drifter in the bizarrely romantic horror-road movie Bones and All. The film echoes Claire Denis' cannibal love story Trouble Every Day [...]
The Fabelmans
An emotionally complex, sentimental journey through the joyful and equally tormented memories of iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg's artistic origins and formative years, Spielberg's latest film, The Fabelmans, is his own [...]
The Menu
Director Mark Mylod has spend over two decades directing some of the biggest, most acclaimed and respected pieces of television. recently, HBO’s Succession and Game of Thrones, but also Entourage and [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Walt Disney. A Burl Ives TV musical. Italian animator Giuliano Cenci. Steve Barron, with 90’s heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas. A Kevin S. Tenney slasher film. Steven Spielberg, somewhat. Roberto Benigni. [...]