Lisa Trifone is Managing Editor and a Film Critic at Third Coast Review. A Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, she is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Find more of Lisa's work at SomebodysMiracle.com
There was a time not too long ago that a film like Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, now streaming on AppleTV+, would’ve garnered a major theatrical release, a star-studded premiere […]
They say necessity is the root of invention, and while writer-director Laura Piani may not have invented anything entirely new with the winning French rom-com Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, […]
You’d be forgiven if, like me (and based on the film’s marketing materials), you anticipated something of a more raucous, raunchy modern romcom from filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Driveways). Perhaps something […]
There are movies, and there are musicals. There are even movie musicals. But the musical movie is something else entirely. These are films where the narrative itself is music-based. Films […]
Relationships always have the potential to be fraught, but that of a parent and child is perhaps the most uniquely challenging. As such, filmmakers have long been exploring these connections […]
About six miles north of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is a satellite campus known as The Cloisters, a set of medieval stone buildings set at the top of […]
In the pantheon of Disney characters, the only one as iconic and enduring as the Mouse of the House himself is perhaps Snow White, the fabled parent-less princess and star […]
If film is a preferred medium for transporting us to places and circumstances we might not otherwise experience, Rungano Nyoni’s deeply affecting (to nearly the point of put-off-ish-ness) On Becoming […]
Every year, fifteen films with runtimes under 40 minutes are handpicked by the Academy for one of three Oscars: Live Action short film, Animated short film and Documentary short film. […]
Th news is…a lot right now. Sometimes the easiest, healthiest decision is to just look away. To look inward, to make our circle smaller and focus on what’s right in […]
Pedro Almodóvar. Tilda Swinton. Julianne Moore. Three names, three reasons to see a film—zero additional context needed. But if you insist… Best known for his work in Spanish (2019’s Pain […]
Best known for her role in the 1990s television drama Baywatch (and plenty of tabloid headlines of the time, as well), Pamela Anderson is having a resurgence of sorts. That’s […]