NOW IN THEATERS! I’ll say this about Alejandro Monteverde’s Sound of Freedom. The film’s message far outweighs any criticism or praise I have for the film. It’s an important true story about child sex trafficking, and in its presentation, it…
Read moreWhile we can dismiss ghosts, ghouls, and other fantastic creatures as figments of our imaginations, it is harder to let go of the uncomfortable feeling that the biggest monsters out there are people. Pascal Plante’s latest movie, Red Rooms (Les…
Read moreSome literary works are so powerful that they keep echoing centuries after they first became public. That's the case with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a novella that helped define the Western view on colonization and which inspired dozens of…
Read moreThis summer, the man with the hat is finally back. No, I'm not talking about Indiana Jones here. Real ones know the season's most exciting revival is happening over on FX, where, eight years after Justified wrapped up its sixth…
Read moreNOW IN THEATERS! The great indie boomerang has brought another great director back to where it all began in the gritty drama Prisoner’s Daughter, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Max (Brian Cox) is a former prizefighter who is in prison for…
Read moreAfter the popularity of the previous Saw the Ride VIP behind the scenes tour back in 2022 Thorpe Park have added more dates to the 2023 calendar to go behind the scenes of the world’s first horror movie rollercoaster. Themed…
Read moreIf there is a lesson of its own to take away from the thriller that is The Lesson, directed by Alice Troughton and written by Alex MacKeith, it is that less can often be more. Some of the most authentically…
Read moreIn this era of cancel culture and political correctness, the genre of comedy, in general, has become a dying breed at movie theaters. It’s difficult to believe that it’s been twenty-five years since the raunchy comedy classic There’s Something About…
Read moreOAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Never has an alien abduction story been so sweet than in Jake Von Wagoner’s feature, Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out. Long ago, little Calvin (Jacob Buster) was instilled…
Read moreThe gangster thriller Bless Me Father takes a deep dive into the moral issues of a violent initiation to a New Jersey mob family. Vinny (Gianni McLaughlin, who also wrote and directed) finds himself ill-suited to be a made man as he…
Read moreIf there’s a funnier movie than Joy Ride in the next six months, 2023 will go down as the best year for R-rated comedies since Tropic Thunder stole Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s thunder. This statistic goes to show how few modern…
Read moreNOW ON TUBI! In this cut-throat world, we are divided into two groups. Those with power and those who are exploited, but in The Clark Brothers’ web series, Groupie: The Blueprint of a Self-Made Millionaire, the table is flipped in…
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