Review: ‘City So Real’Steve James' Intimate Look At Chicago From the Mayoral Race Through...
If you spend any time watching the news, social media, or listen to the current president, you would consider the city of Chicago a...
Review: ‘Fishbowl’Local Maryland Sibling Directors Bring A Family Thriller To Life
Fishbowl follows the Simon family, who had everything going for them. Rick (Rick Kain) and his wife Macy (Judith Hoag) have three beautiful daughters...
Review: ‘Holidate’Emma Roberts Stars In This Not-So-Charming Holiday Film
It’s almost Halloween which means that the Christmas craze has begun. Whether you’re out and about and you see trees and decorations or sitting...
Review: ‘Come Play’Gillian Jacobs Struggles Through A Haunted Tablet Horror In Need Of An...
There are no shortage of films about the dangers of technology, and their propensity to consume our everyday lives. That premise is given a...
Cinema Royale: Talking BORAT 2, THE WITCHES, BAD HAIR, NO TIME TO DIE For...
This week on Cinema Royale we check in on the controversial BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, then it's B-Horror goodness with BAD HAIR and a classic...
Review: ‘Radium Girls’Joey King And Abby Quinn Are Activists In Respectable Drama About A...
Filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher has found her niche this year exploring little-known chapters in female history. Her film A Call to Spy took a...
Review: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’Anya Taylor-Joy Has All The Right Moves As A Tortured Yet...
While the game of chess requires great skill, concentration, adaptation, strategy, and countless other cerebral abilities, it’s often thought of a long and boring...
Review: ‘Bad Hair’ Justin Simien’s Killer Weave Horror Is A Tangled Treat
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Bad Hair opens on Hulu on October 23rd.*
When a black woman...
Review: ‘Synchronic’Time-Travel Snoozer Sends Anthony Mackie And Jamie Dornan On A Bad Trip
Synchronic starts out going one way, like the arthouse version of Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, but turns out to be something else entirely...
Review: ‘The Witches’Anne Hathaway Casts A Campy Spell But Can't Rescue Robert Zemeckis' Dull...
Roald Dahl adaptations are always tricky to pull off, because the author's work often teeters between childish flights of fancy and the stuff of...














