Rachel Sennott is the comedic actor of the moment. In 2020, she led the anxiety-inducing, darkly hilarious Shiva Baby which put all the anxieties and fears of an entire generation on her shoulders, and she walked through it with ease.…
Read moreThe two quotes used to introduce Molly McGlynn’s Bloody Hell perfectly set the tone for the story the filmmaker is trying to tell. By using a powerful passage from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Bloody Hell sets the stage…
Read moreGerard Butler goes from pilot to punishment as his plane lands on a war-torn island but is it worth the watch? Here’s our PLANE review. In the white-knuckle action movie Plane, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from…
Read moreSXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Is There Anybody Out There? is writer-director Ella Glendining’s cinematic journal of her life. Born without hips, a medical disability initialed PFFD (Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency), Glendining is looking to see if there’s anyone who is…
Read moreThe SXSW film festival has kind of harnessed a reputation of being the “cool” festival. Taking place in Austin, Texas, a city that’s also earned its respected status in the entertainment industry, it includes comedy, music, and since 1994, film…
Read moreFrom the first frame, “John Wick: Chapter 4” punches so hard you feel it. Keanu Reeves returns as the titular character who is trying to earn his freedom. In order to do that, he has to defeat the High Table, who…
Read moreSXSW 2023 REVIEW! A struggling late-next talk-show host goes to drastic measures for ratings in Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ horror feature, Late Night with the Devil. It’s October 31, 1977, and Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) is a syndicated talk show host…
Read moreWhen it comes to inspiring stories, nothing really tops an underdog sports narrative. The plucky team with aspirations for greatness. The odds are always stacked against them, but with one determined coach and a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps mentality, the team is able…
Read moreStar Wars has made some wild choices in its nearly 50 years of its existence: Jar-Jar Binks, having a brother and sister kiss, the entirety of The Rise of Skywalker. But there might not be any weirder period of Star…
Read more“I took LSD 375 times.” These are the first words said in “Louder than You Think” by subject Gary Young — drummer, producer, drunkard, and all-around enigma, likely best known as being the original drummer for the lo-fi 90’s alternative…
Read moreSXSW 2023 FILM REVIEW! For Mother’s Day one year, I secretly took all the photos and videos my wife had stored of our children on her iPhone and created a video called “A Mother’s Phone.” Director Ian Cheney goes to…
Read moreIf You Were the Last opens with its two main characters, Zoe Chao's Jane and Anthony Mackie's Adam, playing chess in a retro-stylized living room while they debate the plausibility of Matt Damon's 2015 smash-hit The Martian. Would the U.S.…
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