Drama

Out of the Blue

Dennis Hopper’s 1980 film, released by the BFI for this special, restored two-disc reissue, is a genuine one-off; a dark family drama that few have seen, and there’s a reason for that. This is the darkest of films, as befits Hopper’s reputation as a provocateur; he boarded this project and retooled it as a follow-up […]

Out of the Blue

Comedy

The French Dispatch (2021), A Love-Letter to Journalism

One common recurrence you see on Twitter is people being shocked to learn that Wes Anderson was born and raised in Houston, Texas. This, no doubt, is because of the very European aesthetic that he conjures in his films, while this has certainly become more pronounced with his more recent films like The Grand Budapest […]

The French Dispatch (2021), A Love-Letter to Journalism

Adventure

Finch (2021)

Finch (2021) A decade after solar flares tore apart the ozone layer, turning Earth into a barely liveable irradiated hothouse, engineer Finch Weinberg (Tom Hanks) ekes out a living in his St. Louis laboratory, his only companions his dog, Goodyear, and a cute little helper robot he’s cobbled together named Dewey. It’s clear that Finch […]

Finch (2021)

Crime

HOUSE OF GUCCI

What in the world is House of Gucci about? On the surface House of Gucci is inspired by the true story of the Gucci family, a one-time dynasty that fell once family members started backstabbing each other with backroom dealings and buyouts. But what is the movie up to? What does it hope to gain by telling this story […]

HOUSE OF GUCCI

Comedy

BLACK FRIDAY: Fun Horror Comedy for the Holidays

I’ve always wondered why Black Friday had not been explored in a horror film. Director Casey Tebo and writer Andy Greskoviak finally give the much-deserved holiday-horror treatment to a day that almost looks like a horror movie in real life. Black Friday brings infected, gooey bodies to this familiar shopping holiday and manages to feel at…

BLACK FRIDAY: Fun Horror Comedy for the Holidays

Comedy

The French Dispatch: The Wes Anderson to End All Wes Andersons’

I was so excited to see this, better late than never! The Plot;The film is set within the universe of a fictional 20th-century magazine, based in a beautiful make-believe French city. We meet many characters who have many stories to tell, all of which make up the sections within the next issue of The French […]

The French Dispatch: The Wes Anderson to End All Wes Andersons’

Action

Review: Red Notice

If someone said Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot were starring in a globetrotting heist comedy…you would probably be intrigued. It’s a film idea that has blockbuster written all over it. You’d have to work really hard for this film to be bad. Unfortunately, Netflix loves a challenge. The plot for Red Notice is […]

Review: Red Notice

Fantasy

Nosferatu: A Bold Vision of a Familiar Story

A story become too familiar? After almost a century of Dracula narratives, whether they are adapted directly from the Bram Stoker novel or not, the character and his arc feels as familiar as a family heirloom, passed down the generations. This is part of why F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is the adaptation of the

story I come back to more often than any other- Murnau’s film feels like an oddity, like that weird uncle you don’t really want to talk about. And yet, it still has a place in the family, because the DNA remains constant.

Nosferatu: A Bold Vision of a Familiar Story