A Risk-Taking Tarantino and Cronenberg-Influenced Adventure

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A Risk-Taking Tarantino and Cronenberg-Influenced Adventure

With movie theaters and streaming platforms overflowing with sequels and remakes, new and fresh ideas are always welcome. The Devil and the Daylong Brothers is a daring project. Directed by Brandon McCormick, The Devil and the Daylong Brothers mixes action,…

A Villainous Misadventure with Heart

The latest animated feature from the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, Plankton: The Movie, takes center stage as the second in a series of character-focused spin-off films. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, this animated musical comedy puts the series’ resident…

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie ushers in a new era for the Looney Tunes franchise by going back to basics. Back in 1996, Looney Tunes moved on from doing feature-length compilation cartoons to making a…

Timely Documentary Explores The Emotional Toll Of Wrongful Detention [SXSW]

The first scene of Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De’s propulsive new documentary “Take No Prisoners” begins with a prisoner exchange. As the camera peers through a porthole window of a private jet, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs (SPERA) Roger…

Screenlife Movies Get Their Own Heist Film With This Fantastically Tense Thriller

Watching Ronan Corrigan’s LifeHack transported me back to South by Southwest 2015, where I saw the premiere of Leo Gabriadze’s Unfriended. I sat there enamored by what would become a landmark kickstart for the screenlife horror movement, hypnotized by its…

Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys Drive Away With This Nightmarish Parental Horror

Under the Shadow filmmaker Babak Anvari returns to South by Southwest this year with an atypical one-location thriller. Hallow Road is every parent's nightmare, but its approach is uncommon. Actors Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys generate tension through a telephone…

Nicolas Cage’s Anxiety-Inducing Performance Is That Of A Man On The Edge In Slow-Burn Thriller That Isn’t What It Seems

Sometimes a film will set the stage for what comes next and we learn to anticipate that predictability, which can be good or bad depending on how well the story is executed. Other times, the buildup goes to an unexpected…

Pure Adrenaline and Over-the-Top Gore

Some movies grab you by the throat from the very first scene — and Novacaine does exactly that. The moment R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts started playing in the opening scene, I knew I was in for a ride. What starts off…

Matt Johnson’s ‘Back to the Future’ Riff Is the Funniest Parody in Years

To be perfectly honest, I knew very little about Nirvanna the Band the Show before I walked in to see Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. All I knew was the name, because that's clearly something you don't forget.…

Kate Mara Is Trapped In A Sci-Fi Horror That Crashes to Earth [SXSW]

AUSTIN – Every so often, you see a film that leaves you questioning nearly everything about its construction when it turns what it’d been building on its head. In the best-case scenario, this can be interesting when the way it…

Art Heist Thriller Is A Sleek Package For A More Intimate Story About Family & Forgery

Somewhere in Florida in an old motel, a girl named Coco (Andie Ju) meets with a man from Craigslist. He’s there to evaluate a piece of art she found after her grandmother’s death. It’s unclear at first who the real…

Ray Nicholson Is Hollywood’s New Charming Psycho

Audiences are really enjoying some blood with their comedies these days. The Oscar-winning (and losing) The Substance is as grotesque as it is absurdly funny; the Valentine’s release this year, Heart Eyes, combined a rom-com story with slasher tropes; and…

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