Reviews

The Super Mario Bros. Movie feels like a video game speedrun. It’s so fast, it’s only fitting to keep this… Read more: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

So I planned on dedicating my March review to Scream 6. After last year’s entry was a fantastic surprise, 6… Read more: John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Bad B(ear) Movies are back!  The family of Zoological Horror-Thrillers that feature a big bad bear is most notably composed… Read more: Cocaine Bear (2023)

It’s the first week of 2023 and we’re kicking off what should be another great year for the medium with… Read more: M3GAN (2023)

Michael Bay is back and he’s here to Americanize a 2005 Danish film of the same name, in true Hollywood… Read more: Ambulance (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a mind blowing multiverse spectacle. You only thought Swiss Army Man was bonkers. Dan… Read more: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Thanks to the University of Pitt’s discovery of Jacaranda Joe in their Archive, I was able to attend their virtual… Read more: Jacaranda Joe (1994)

Without getting too sappy, lately I’ve found myself in a terrible life rut, uninterested in practically anything and for some… Read more: Jackass Forever (2022)

**Major Spoilers Ahead*** It’s been a long 3 years since its initial announcement but Matt Reeves The Batman starring Robert… Read more: The Batman (2022)

“It’s him isn’t it. Laytherfayce” ***Spoilers Ahead*** Texas Chainsaw Massacre is hilariously bad-ass. It’s poorly written, badly acted, lacks any… Read more: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

The big hitter of Valentines Day-Week 2022 has arrived. Apparently adapted from a Graphic Novel by Bobby Crosby, Kat Coiro’s… Read more: Marry Me (2022)

Two Rom-Coms hit the streaming world in what could be considered their Super Bowl of release windows: Valentines Day Week.… Read more: I Want You Back (2022)

“Hey Kimi. Play Sabotage.” Each year or so it feels like a new Steven Soderbergh movie comes out of nowhere… Read more: Kimi (2022)

“Is he a man or beast”…..or is he geek? Nightmare Alley is holy mesmerizing shit!!! Its addictive, deceptive neo-noir for… Read more: Nightmare Alley (2021)

For what’s it’s worth: ***Spoilers Ahead*** Roland Emmerich’s latest blockbuster Moonfall is an astronomical science fiction disaster on so many… Read more: Moonfall (2022)

The Fallout reaches deep into the acute trauma caused by school mass shootings and the extensive road to recovery that… Read more: The Fallout (2022)

Flee is an incredibly touching movie. It’s got some of the most inventive animation documentary filmmaking with heartbreaking, crushingly real… Read more: Flee (2021)

If you come across The Requin wherever you may be, you’ll see the decent looking poster with the shark plastered… Read more: The Requin (2022)

The filmmaking duo of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson didn’t let the current pandemic stop them from making the latest… Read more: Something in the Dirt (2022)

John Patton Ford’s Emily the Criminal marks the debut of his first feature film and it couldn’t have come at… Read more: Emily the Criminal (2022)

Mother Nature meets motherhood in The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, a captivating story of damaged environments,… Read more: The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future (2022)

Sundance 2022 Film #1 Mariama Diallo’s feature length directorial debut, Master, is a never ending psychological thriller of racism and… Read more: Master (2022)

The Worst Person in the World is easily one of the worlds best movies of 2021.  It’s my personal favorite… Read more: The Worst Person in the World (2021)

“You Sick F***s, you’ve seen one too many movies”df9f00 Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Scream is the franchise’s meta Legacy… Read more: Scream (2022)

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been adapted to the screen many times before and a few top tier directors can claim… Read more: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

David Bruckner’s Bruckner’s The Night House is a haunting reencounter with depression. At the center of The Night House is… Read more: The Night House (2021)

Tsai Ming-liang’s Days captures urban loneliness via a keenly minimalist lens. I must first confess that I haven’t seen any… Read more: Days (2021)

The newest addition to the Disney Animation Studios library, Encanto, is a vibrant musical, unlike any that’s come before it.… Read more: Encanto (2021)

It didn’t take long for Jon Watt’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to become 2021s highest grossing movie. There’s plenty of… Read more: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Last year’s Sundance saw the premiere of Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hills Cusp. Deep in the heart of Texas in a… Read more: Cusp (2021)

For the most part, I had fun watching Destin Daniel Crettons Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Such… Read more: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Christmas. …Again?! Is Disney Channel’s latest original movie and it’s their Christmas present to the world this year.  When change… Read more: Christmas …Again?! (2021)

Michael Mayer’s Single All the Way is Netflix’s latest run of the mill Christmas movie. It’s a product of the… Read more: Single All the Way (2021)

It surprisingly feels like many people haven’t seen Camille Griffins Silent Night.  It’s not anything great but it feels like… Read more: Silent Night (2021)

Kenneth Branaughs Belfast is his love letter to those that stayed, those that left and those that were lost in… Read more: Belfast (2021)

Anders Thomas Jensens Riders of Justice is a vengefully misguided but cathartic examination of grief. Between the bookending of two… Read more: Riders of Justice (2020)

Valdimar Johannsson’s debut feature, Lamb, is a chilling Icelandic tale. Starring Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Guonason, this reserved couple live… Read more: Lamb (2021)

Pablo Larrain’s fable from a true tragedy is probably the most dreadfully suffocating Christmas movie in existence. The year is 1991… Read more: Spencer (2021)

Black Friday…no not the annual retail gimmick…the new horror comedy based on said gimmick…is NUTS. I had a fun time… Read more: Black Friday (2021)

Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho is a psychologically transcendent nightmare. A young aspiring fashion designer named Eloise, played by Thomasin… Read more: Last Night in Soho (2021)

Zola is seductive cinema. I don’t remember a single one of the infamous Zola tweets in detail but I remember the… Read more: Zola (2021)

Nicole Reigels Holler is a cold desperate little movie. Written and directed by Reigel, her directorial debut, and adapted from her… Read more: Holler (2020)

Matt Angel and Suzanne Cootes Hypnotic is not very good. There’s no other way to put it. Its more nauseating than… Read more: Hypnotic (2021)

I like Jim Cummings The Beta Test a lot. More than Thunder Road but not as much as The Wolf… Read more: The Beta Test (2021)

Aside from Jane Campions The Power of the Dog, you won’t find a better Western than Jeymes Samuels The Harder… Read more: The Harder They Fall (2021)

A Quiet Place Part II is one of those films in the Covid-19 Canon, a group of films that were… Read more: A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

So i’m not really sure what I was expecting but whatever The Ice Road is….wasn’t it. I’ll start with the lone… Read more: The Ice Road (2021)

I had fairy high hopes for this one. A Coppola at the helm, a trio of young actors at various… Read more: Mainstream (2020)

Sometimes you just want to put something on and be entertained for an hour or two. No indecisive and extensive… Read more: Bliss (2021)