Review: The Bob’s Burgers Movie Is More of What Fans of the Show Already Appreciate
Less a feature film and more of an expanded episode of the television series (not a criticism, just an observation),…
Review: A Styleless There Are No Saints Never Gets Beyond Crime Drama Tropes
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that he’s working from…
Interview: Filmmaker Stefan Forbes on Toxic Masculinity, Hostage Negotiations and Finding the Story in Hold Your Fire
In the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, director Stefan Forbes painted a portrait of a political player…
Review: Top Gun: Maverick Features Impressive Flight Scenes But More Nostalgia Than Novelty
I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present,…
Review: Despite a Slightly Dimmer Storyline, Downton Abbey: A New Era Captures Much of the Franchise’s Charms Yet Again
If you had told me over a decade ago that a prim and polished television drama from PBS set within…
Review: Gender-Centric Horror Flick Men Struggles to Find Depth Beyond Trauma
A film like Men, the latest from writer/director Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina), is not going to be everyone’s cup…
Review: Lacking Any Spark, a New Adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter Never Really Ignites
The recent attempt to re-ignite author Stephen King’s work as film adaptations after the first It movie blew up the…
Review: The Sadness Is a Highly Effective and Wildly Unnerving Zombie Thriller
Who knew Taiwanese horror could be so…messy? Marking the feature debut of writer/director Rob Jabbaz (a Canadian filmmaker who has…
Review: With Typical True Crime Style, Our Father Recounts a Troubling Fertility Saga
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the new Lucie Jourdan-directed documentary Our Father is produced by Jason Blum…
Review: Hatching Is Part Creature-Feature, Part Social Commentary
Part social commentary, part creature-feature, Finnish thriller Hatching succeeds in large part because it commits so diligently to its conceit, as out…
Interview: Actor/Producer Mark Wahlberg on Discovering the Story of Father Stu and Finding the Time and Team to Make the Movie
Since we’ll be focusing on ra film about a spiritual man, I’ll open this interview with a confession: I did…
Review: Despite a Star-Studded Ensemble Cast, The Bad Guys Lacks Originality and Style
If you told me that I was about to watch a movie with such immensely talented and interesting actors as…
