In his first time writing and directing a feature, Andrew DeYoung manages to craft the quintessential perfectly unhinged cringe comedy of the 21st century, Friendship. It’s a movie that is so absolutely and unabashedly insane, it causes the audience to… Read More ›
From Zach Baylin, the writer of Creed III (2023), King Richard (2021), Gran Turismo (2023), Bob Marley: One Love (2024), and The Crow (2024), and Justin Kurzel, the director of Macbeth (2015) and Assassin’s Creed (2016), comes one of the… Read More ›
Movies are like baseball, three strikes and you’re out. Every artist has a bad outing or something that gets lost along the way, not communicated as intended to their audience, so benefit of the doubt has to be instilled. However,… Read More ›
In our era of perpetual information, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of all the horrific embattlements going on across the world. The two most top of mind are the Russo-Ukrainian War and the Israel-Gaza War, but there’s also violence… Read More ›
The popular idiom “Many hands make light work,” first stated by John Heywood, is incredibly true, especially when working toward the same goal. Professional and large or amateur and small (or some combination), all film productions have some kind of… Read More ›
“Do you wanna drink, hey do you wanna party? Hey, this is old Hank, ready to get your summer started I cooked a pig in the ground, we got some beer on ice And all my rowdy friends are coming… Read More ›
In a year where most corners of the art form — horror, action blockbusters, dramas, comedies, etc. — have been uneven in the wake of the WGA-SAG-AFTRA strikes, it’s been a pretty great year for queer cinema. I Saw the… Read More ›
Touted as the first Irish-language horror film, John Farrelly’s An Taibhse (The Ghost) is a well-intentioned mix of folk horror, disturbing imagery, and narrative references to the horror genre in general (mostly The Shining (1980)). With an all-too familiar setting… Read More ›
It requires a specific dedication and abdication of self to become a guardian of another person. To that end, the truest lesson I’ve learned as a parent is that it’s not for the weak. In the days where a “village”… Read More ›
Sometimes the best way to get an audience to consider something, to battle with the way they perceive or process something, is to give it to them wrapped in something else. In the parlance of the 2024 action rom-com The… Read More ›
“And so he told me his secret formula for happiness. Part one of the two-part plan was that I should just get on with ordinary life, living it day by day, like anyone else. But then came part two of… Read More ›
When we think of directors who are famous for what they’ve done in a specific genre, it’s weird to see a movie from them that is so enriched by their personal life and feels like an incredibly personable film. That… Read More ›
EoM Senior Interviewer Thomas Manning recently attended the Nashville Film Festival on behalf of Meet Me at the Movies and sat down with director Morrisa Maltz to discuss her film Jazzy. Starring Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux as herself, Jazzy is a… Read More ›
In what could be described as a movie that lives in the same spiritual world as Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s Tuesday (2023), Andrea Arnold’s Bird, similar in vibes and tonal elements in storytelling, focuses on coming-of-age and growing up faster than needed… Read More ›
If you’ve never heard of the name Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us; The Big 4) then there is something you need to fix, immediately. One of the most exciting directors to exist today, he never misses and continues… Read More ›
For the very first time, EoM is covering the New Orleans Film Festival! With this being our first time, we decided to put together a shortlist of films I’d be interested in seeing that might be good to have on… Read More ›
Romantic films are easy to find. There are entire network television channels dedicated to them, but finding one rom-com that is so brilliant yet mediocre is a magical feat. And that isn’t necessarily a back-handed compliment but more commentary on… Read More ›
The Luckiest Man in America is both the title of Samir Oliveros’s second feature and also could be used to identify the star of the movie, someone who exploded onto the scene a few years back and continues to shine… Read More ›
Trigger Warning: There is a sequence in the climax of the film with extensive cross-cutting that may be disturbing for photosensitive viewers. There are some films which, from the start, communicate to the audience that what they’re about to witness… Read More ›
No one has ever questioned Sarah Paulson’s (Serenity; Ocean’s 8) ability to breathe life into something, and with her newest film, Hold Your Breath, this streak will continue as she is effortlessly brilliant in it and genuinely transforms the movie… Read More ›