Review: ‘The Starling’Melissa McCarthy Tangles With Grief And An Angry Bird In Theodore Melfi's...
*NOTE: This review was recently part of our 2021 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. The Starling comes to Netflix on September 24th.*
“Birds are tricky,” ...
Review: ‘Burden’, Garrett Hedlund Seeks Redemption In Unfocused But Well-Meaning Race Drama
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Burden opens in theaters tomorrow, February 28th. *
Nowadays the KKK...
Review: ‘Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part 1’Tom Cruise Keeps Taking This Franchise To New Heights...
Can we just admit something about the Mission: Impossible movies of late? Look, I absolutely love them and I love Tom Cruise for being...
Review: ‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’Emma Thompson Stars In A Chaotic Musical Adaptation Of...
Ask any 90s millennial what their favorite movie was as a kid and chances are they would say Danny DeVito’s Matilda. Close to 30...
Review: ‘Pieces of Her’Toni Collette Can't Save Netflix's Weak Adaption Of Karin Slaughter's Best-Seller
How well do we know our parents and how does their unknown trauma impact our own identities? That’s the question director Minkie Spiro and...
Review: ‘Black Beauty’Kate Winslet Voices The Iconic Horse In Disney's Dark But Rewarding Adaptation
Was Black Beauty always so...grim? Perhaps it was. Admittedly, Anna Sewell's 1877 novel wasn't high on my must-read list as a kid, and it's...
Review: ‘Dinner In America’A Punk Rock Coming Of Age Story That Serves Up A...
Simon (Kyle Gallner) is not having the best day in Dinner in America. He is short on cash, in a fight with his band,...
31 Days Of Horror: Day 19 ‘Blood Feast’ (1963)Directed by: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Synopsis: An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami using their body parts to revive the dormant goddess Ishtar while an inept police...
Review: ‘Bottoms’Rachel Sennott And Ayo Edibiri Go Wild In Brazen, Raunchy, Bare-Knuckle Queer Comedy
When your film combines the talents of Shiva Baby writer/director Emma Seligman and her brilliant star Rachel Sennott, plus The Bear breakout Ayo Edibiri, the expectations are...
Review: ‘Hearts Beat Loud’, Nick Offerman And Kiersey Clemons Jam Out In An Infectious...
It's "jam sesh time" urges Nick Offerman's Frank in Brett Haley's sweet, low-key dramedy Hearts Beat Loud, one of the most popular films to...