Film Review: XX, A Feminist Perspective on Horror
In an effort to expand on the current wave of female-directed horror breakthroughs—such as Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Ana Lily…
Film Review: A United Kingdom, An Inspiring Not-So-Simple True Love Story That Changed the World
A wonderful trend in the last year of film has been the uncovering of long-forgotten (and sometimes, virtually unknown) stories…
Film Review: Fist Fight, A Mediocre Afterschool Special
In many strange ways, the raunchy comedy Fist Fight has a few important messages buried in its brutality, most of…
Film Review: The Great Wall, Strange and Bold
Admittedly, it sounds like a ridiculous idea on paper. Hell, even when you see it executed on the big screen,…
Film Review: A Cure for Wellness, A Spectacular Thud
While director Gore Verbinski has true gifts for immersive production design (as he did in the first three Pirates of…
An Overview of the 2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films
Some of the finest directors working today cut their teeth on (and occasionally return to) short films. Look at any…
Film Review: Alone in Berlin, An Inspiring Rebellion
The 1947 novel “Every Man Dies Alone,” by author Hans Fallada, is best known for being one of the first…
Film Review: The Red Turtle, Magnificently Realized
The natural inclination after watching the Oscar-nominated, timeless, and slightly surrealistic The Red Turtle is to wonder what centuries-old mythology…
Film Review: Fifty Shades Darker, Stupid and Loathsome
It’s true what they say: familiarity breeds contempt. And the more I get to know the characters in the Fifty…
Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 2, Unflinchingly Brutal
During the course of the first John Wick film (released in 2014), writer Derek Kolstad and first-time director Chad Stahelski…
Film Review: The Lego Batman Movie, Is it Possible to Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
Sitting through the high-energy, brightly colored, million-jokes-per-minute The Lego Batman Movie, I was reminded of a question that I haven’t…
Film Review: Saving Banksy, A Glimpse Into the Clandestine Grey Market of Purchasable Street Art
Although it doesn’t end the debate about whether street art/graffiti art/anonymous art is a fancy term for vandalism, the documentary…
