Action Movie Countdown #2: In HARD BOILED, action is emotion
by Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
Face/Off will always be his most famous film in the US, but before he began making American films, Hard Boiled was already a masterpiece.
With DUCHESS, Neil Marshall apes British crime films, gets bloody nowhere, innit?
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Marshall has made a Guy Ritchie or Matthew Vaughn movie, which is to say he's taking their recycled 70s and 80s crime tropes and recycling them again.
CALL BACK holds a mirror up to the Industry and HollyShorts audiences alike
by Liz Wiest
I found Call Back to be prolific, gorgeously shot, with a biting satirical lens capturing our reality at 110%.
STRANGE DARLING is a wicked cat and mouse thriller
by Vannah Taylor, Staff Writer
Strange Darling is wicked and playful, like a cat toying with its prey.
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG is an ambitious vampire flick
by Gary M. Kramer, staff writer
The Night Is Young is a mixed bag.
POPCORN FRIGHTS FEST offers thrills and chills in week one
by Avery Coffey, Staff Writer
Here’s three flicks Avery caught at Popcorn Frights Fest.
THE BUILDOUT is a slow burn into the unknown
by Vannah Taylor, Staff Writer
The mysteries of The Buildout are questions that are never clearly answered, and the terror is often hidden in small glimpses or lurking in the shadows.
GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE turns a punchline into prestige
by Susan Keiser, Staff Writer
Girl You Know It’s True wouldn’t be a Milli Vanilli biopic if it weren’t surface-level, but the obvious tropes are hit with a deft touch, and beyond the sex, drugs, and sushi rolls, there is a real heart to it.
ELECTRIC LADY STUDIOS: A JIMI HENDRIX VISION is a straightforward biodoc of the legendary studio
by Shah!, Staff Writer
Beyond the origins of the studio told here, there wasn’t much meat on the bone to make it a truly unique and fantastic documentary.
CUCKOO updates a classic monster movie formula
by "Doc" Hunter Bush, Podcast Czar
Tilman Singer has crafted a monster movie in the tradition of the Universal Monsters classics.
THE CONVERSATION continues to be engaging in it's new 4K restoration
by Rosalie Kicks, Editor in Chief and Old Sport
My first encounter with The Conversation was close to twenty years ago when I viewed it during a film class. Even after just a single watch, it managed to always stick with me.
Disc Dispatch: COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
There is something about Burt Lancaster’s demeanor on screen that instantly soothes me. I can’t help but have a feeling of tranquility when I watch him in a film. To my surprise, in Come Back, Little Sheba almost every scene of his was stolen by his costar Shirley Booth.
The Fantasia International Film Festival: final week
by "Doc" Hunter Bush, Staff Writer & Podcast Czar
I view my time at Fantasia like wandering through an international buffet: flavors and textures that might otherwise go overlooked.
COUP! is a tedious lukewarm comedy
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Coup! hardly needs the exclamation point in its title as this lukewarm comedy about class warfare is more tedious than exciting.
DETAINED stumbles over its own attempts to thrill
by Andrea Schmidt, Staff Writer
Perhaps, with a stronger script, Detained could have proven a much more engaging thriller, worthy of the efforts of its actors.
KNEECAP profiles Irish rappers fighting for their own language
by Shah!, Staff Writer
In the year 2024, nothing feels more socially and culturally relevant than a film about oppression and imperialism disguised on the surface as a hip-hop comedy with sex, drugs, and profanity.
The Fantasia International Film Festival: week two
by "Doc" Hunter Bush, Staff Writer & Podcast Czar
My second week of Fantasia International Film Festival offerings has been incredible.
Disc Dispatch: BWANA DEVIL (1952)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Natural Vision 3-D is “healthy and beneficial”.
Folk horror STARVE ACRE looks great, but feels derivative within the subgenera
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
Starve Acre is a beautiful looking horror film with wonderful leading performances that struggles to get its story across and to rise to the level of the films it emulates.
THE LAST BREATH is a cookie cutter shark survival movie
by Susan Keiser, Staff Writer
The Last Breath is mindless entertainment, the type of throwaway programmer that populated the seas and drive-ins of mid-20th century American cinema.