Movies are magic. They take visions of the imagination and breathe life into them, projecting them high onto a silver screen in a large auditorium so that the gathered audience can share in the illusion together. Doesn’t matter if the… Read More ›
In Theaters
Don’t miss out on Rasheed Stephens’s best day of his life in the mixed-format dramedy “All I’ve Got & Then Some.” [Slamdance Film Festival]
“Best Day of My Life!” When asked how he’s doing by friends, colleagues in the comedy realm, passengers in his latest pick-up, and everyone in between, Rasheed Stephens (himself) replies with the same answer: “Best day of my life.” It’s… Read More ›
Filmmaker Rafael Toledo is set to make an explosive impression with his short film “Blockbuster.” [Slamdance Film Festival]
In an era where it seems like most major studio releases are one giant computer-generated sequence after another, there’s something desirable about watching a film with practical effects. Realism is overrated when there’s something tangible before us, even if it… Read More ›
“The Goldfinger” adapts real events into a compelling cinematic crime drama.
When it comes to movie-making, which is superior: truth or manipulated fiction? To some, the facts don’t matter as long as the essence of a thing is captured (Bohemian Rhapsody); whereas, to others, if the presentation of facts is constructed… Read More ›
Filmmaker Pete Ohs’s satirical comedy “Love and Work” utilizes laughter as a gateway for much-needed introspection. [Slamdance Film Festival]
Exacerbated by a variety of global conditions due to COVID-19, the United States is now a society in which working is the prime directive. Not creating art, not engaging with cultures or communities beyond ourselves, just working in order to… Read More ›
Filmmaker Choi Dong-hoon’s hotly anticipated “Alienoid” sequel “Return to the Future” arrives with bigger action and bigger laughs to navigate world-ending stakes.
August 2022, U.S. audiences were introduced to co-writer/director Choi Dong-hoon’s brand-new sci-fi action comedy Alienoid (외계+인 1부), a world in which an order of intergalactic peacekeepers house alien prisoners within the bodies of humans in order to keep them docile…. Read More ›
Filmmaker Daniel Robbins’s new doc “Citizen Weiner” encourages audiences to make the change they want to see in their local government. [Slamdance Film Festival]
In the ‘80s, there was a trend of films that built up their own cliché — the rag tag group of kids going up against the big city conglomerate, usually to save a community center. Do keep in mind that,… Read More ›
“Wanted Man” delivers on B-movie action.
If you were from the ‘80s, a big bulking dude who made a career of questionable quality action films, and then decided to write and direct equally questionable content, then audiences should know exactly what they’re getting themselves in to…. Read More ›
“Freud’s Last Session” is a thorny bore and a great idea.
Freud’s Last Session may not have been with C.S. Lewis, Christian Apologist and author of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to be, but what this film presupposes is: maybe it was? Set on the day Hitler’s Nazi Germany… Read More ›
“Which Brings Me to You” breathes some fresh air into rom-coms.
There are so many romantic comedies that come out every year, and so many of them follow the same formula that they become exhaustingly repetitive, just uninspired, and, regardless from how attractive the leads, nothing can save these movies from… Read More ›
Zachary Quinto and Jacob Elordi fail to find chemistry in the frustrating, incoherent road film “He Went That Way”.
The Road Movie. A film where a character, or group of characters, sets sail on an adventure, goes to visit an old friend, do a deed or just…go searching. Revelations are made, things are discovered, events in favor to the… Read More ›
“Mean Girls” transitions from Millennial to Gen Z cliques with some growing pains in this cinematic adaptation of the musical production.
Contrary to the millennial pitchforks you will find unsheathed in the TikTok comment section of any ad for this film, Mean Girls is not a straight remake of the 2004 teen classic also titled Mean Girls, but rather an adaptation… Read More ›
“The Book of Clarence” is an entertaining and modernized homage to biblical epics.
Biblical epics are harder to find in cinemas nowadays. Classics like Ben-Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956) are theatrical landmarks. Hollywood has avoided these kinds of stories in recent years, until now. The Book of Clarence tells a different… Read More ›
“Night Swim” can’t tread water to save its life
January has long since been the dumping ground for studio films that executives and test audiences have deemed to be the low points of their upcoming slates, whether it be cheap action films, cheesy horror films, unfunny comedies, or cliché… Read More ›
Director Xavier Gens’s revenge actioner “Mayhem!” brings all of that and plenty of carnage with it.
After premiering in France in June 2023 and screening at a variety of genre film festivals like Fantasia International Film Festival, Slash Film Festival, and FrightFest under the name Farang (a Thai term meaning “foreigner”), IFC Films snagged director Xavier… Read More ›
Filmmaker Cord Jefferson’s debut satire “American Fiction” is more than just a comedy.
Satire is becoming increasingly more difficult to pull off successfully in 2023. Whether it be because the barrier of entry for people to create content results in lower quality content, or maybe it’s everyone’s complete lack of media literacy to… Read More ›
“The Iron Claw” is built on career-defining performances from its leads.
Then. Now. Forever. If those three words trigger a response out of you, then you’re a wrestling fan. If the image of a panda smashing a chair over another panda with the letters WWF presented around it evokes a smile… Read More ›
Director Blitz Bazawule’s “The Color Purple” is a melodramatic, phenomenally acted, and joyous musical.
1985’s The Color Purple is a film beloved by many over the years. Its themes of identity resonated with audiences over time. With the original being nominated for 11 Academy Awards, it was a matter of time before it was… Read More ›
Novel adaptation “Rumble Through The Dark” may follow a rote narrative path, but delivers enough surprises to satisfy.
Are we the family we’ve come from or the family we create? This is the major question at the center of the Graham and Parker Phillips-helmed Rumble Through The Dark, a drama adapted from the Michael Farris Smith March 2018… Read More ›
Second serving of “Chicken Run” misses some of the magic of the first.
There is something inherently interesting about movies that decide to make a come back after a significantly long break between entries. Sometimes this is because the story needs the time to breath, or the characters need the break to grow… Read More ›