There’s huge buzz around Flow, which follows the journey of a cat through a flooded world where humans are curiously absent, but their former presence is felt everywhere.
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Top 10 Films – Jake Gyllenhaal
One of the most diverse and consistent performers in the industry, Jake Gyllenhaal has been a Hollywood mainstay for multiple decades. While recently moving into more of a fun period where he’s been happy to take lead in the likes of Ambulance and Road House, there’s no denying that […]
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Journey to Adapting ‘Disclaimer’ into a Limited Series
Alfonso Cuarón adapted Renée Knight’s novel Disclaimer into a seven-part series due to its complexities. The story revolves around journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, whose life changes after receiving a mysterious book. With high production values, the show explores themes of truth and narrative, challenging viewers’ perceptions and inviting deeper engagement with the characters.
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Documentary Reveals New Perspectives on the Menendez Brothers
The Menendez Brothers explore the complex story of the brothers, provoking reflection on guilt, trauma, and social judgment.
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TIFF 2024: Heretic Review
This will be one of many reviews during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, to keep up with our latest coverage, click here. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are names that should be mentioned more often in discussions regarding modern horror, especially for their contributions to A Quiet Place. While John Krasinski has deservedly earned…
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Film Review: The Iron Claw
Sean Durkin’s THE IRON CLAW tells the tragic story of the Von Erichs in a subtle, perfectly sensitive drama.
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Longlegs
Most of the horror community loves a good serial killer story. As morbid as it is, there are hundreds of thousands of hours of true crime podcasts, TV series, and films that either recount the true events of innocent people being dispatched by a depraved mind or take inspiration from these murders to create fictional […]
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The Substance
I loved The Substance for its audacity, confrontational nature, indelible performances and wicked sense of humor. It’s an unforgettably wild ride of excess. Recommended.
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Joker Folie Á Deux is a Don’t
Joker: Folie Á Deux will leave folks split on their opinions and we all know that doing sequels can be a bit dicey trying to recapture the magic. Lightning in a bottle didn’t go down this time, but if you like musicals, witnessing a Phoenix and Gaga duet is totally worth it.
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Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul – Uniting Modernity and Tradition in Turkish Music
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Fatih Akin’s documentary Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul. Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city…
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Aftersun (2022) Review
Paul Mescal as Calum Paterson Frankie Corio as Sophie Paterson Director: Charlotte Wells Twenty years after their last holiday at a fading vacation resort, Sophie reflects on the rare time spent with her loving and idealistic father Calum. At 11-years-old, as the world of adolescence creeps into Sophie’s view, Calum struggles…
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Encounter
There’s few things more annoying than the cinematic bait and switch; setting up the idea of one movie in the minds of an audience, then delivering something else. Sometimes it’s because film-makers or studios change their minds, or sometimes the product doesn’t fit the marketplace; delivering a trailer for Sweeney Todd that provided no hint…
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Shut Up, Crime! – Super (2010)
With the darkness. So this is about an everyday guy named Frank (Rainn Wilson). His wife (Liv Tyler) is a recovering addict and starts to cozy up to a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). When Frank loses her completely, he turns to God for direction, and because he is not the most mentally stable person, he […]
Shut Up, Crime! – Super (2010)
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“Dexter: New Blood” on Showtime: The Dark Passenger Returns
Dexter: New Blood gives fans another chance to connect with their favorite serial killer as a different kind of monster emerges in a new setting. Does Dexter: New Blood do enough to make up for its disappointing series finale? Let’s find out…
Spoiler-Free Review of “Dexter: New Blood” on Showtime: The Dark Passenger Returns
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Hereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited. This is a film that had always been on the edge of my awareness especially as reviews came up when the film […]
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Review in Brief: First Cow
FIRST COW is one of those films that drops you into another time and every small detail adds to its palpable authenticity. Nobody films slow and beautiful stories like Kelly Reichardt. Cookie (John Magaro) is a man trying to get by in a harsh time, meeting a fellow survivor, a fellow man without place (Orion […]
Review in Brief: First Cow (2019/20)
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Midsommar’s Nordic Nationalism and Neo-Confederate Nostalgia
Eugene “Joey” Albin and Julie A. Ward on the parallels between the imagined Viking past of “Midsommar” and the racist, nationalist myths held up by neo-Confederates in the USA.
Midsommar’s Nordic Nationalism and Neo-Confederate Nostalgia
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Jim Carrey Resigns from Playing Joe Biden on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Carrey played Biden on “SNL” throughout the lead-up to the presidential election.
Jim Carrey Resigns from Playing Joe Biden on ‘Saturday Night Live’
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Short Film: HOLD ON, 3min., USA, Dance
A powerful new short dance film, soundtracked by Gil Scott-Heron’s “Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams),” featuring Jo’Artis “Big Mijo” Ratti protesting via Krumping within feet of the LAPD at a recent Black Lives Matter protest. Says Big Mijo, one of the founders of the South Central-born Krumping movement and a professional dancer for +10 […]
Short Film: HOLD ON, 3min., USA, Dance
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First Cow (2019)
Business ventures always have risks. Set in Oregon in the 1800s, this is about a cook (John Magaro). He crosses paths with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee), and they have a connection. They are both looking to make their fortune, and they see an opportunity when a local wealthy man (Toby Jones) gets the first […]
Milk Bandits – First Cow (2019)
