Review: ‘Thanksgiving’Eli Roth Serves Up A Gory New Turkey Day Cult Classic
Wedged unfortunately between Halloween and Christmas, Thanksgiving always gets the short end of the holiday movie stick. Eli Roth has long sought to change...
Review: ‘Next Goal Wins’Taika Waititi's Silly, Good-Hearted Soccer Comedy Scores When It Counts
Taika Waititi's unique brand of humor has elevated him from relative obscurity to directing a pair of hit Marvel films, becoming a popular favorite...
Review: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’Villain Who Doesn't Need An...
Of all the cheap, lazy ways to keep a franchise going, the most aggravating is the villain origin story. For one thing, a good...
Review: ‘Trolls Band Together’Trolls Go Boy Band Crazy In Another Joyous, Kooky Pop Music-Charged...
I've been asked a lot in recent weeks why I love the Trolls franchise so much. The reasons are pretty simple, actually. Beyond the fact that...
Review: ‘Walden’Emile Hirsch Is The Vigilante No One Expected In Darkly Comic Revenge Thriller
Walden centers on court stenographer Walden Dean (Emile Hirsch), who lives in a small Georgia town. His life is pleasant and unassuming. Aside from...
Review: “Your Lucky Day’Angus Cloud's Final Performance Is Bittersweet In This Dark Thriller
It feels fitting that Angus Cloud’s last movie starts with a drug deal gone wrong. The 25-year-old actor was best known for his role...
Review: ‘It’s A Wonderful Knife’Deck The Halls With Gore And Murder, Fa La La...
It's bad enough that there isn't a proper sub-genre for "Thanksgiving Movie", sure you can point to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles but that's everyone's go...
Review: ‘Birth/Rebirth’A Hauntingly Beautiful Story About Playing God
Birth/Rebirth follows Rose Caspar (Marin Ireland), a reclusive morgue technician in search of a cure for death. When a young girl tragically dies from...
Review: ‘Showdown At The Grand’Terrence Howard And Dolph Lundgren Fight Gentrifiers In Orson Oblowitz’s...
I am of the age where I was able to witness the retirement of “Mom & Pop” cinemas, smaller (or sometimes even bigger) theaters...
Review: ‘The Marvels’Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, And Iman Vellani Go Intergalactic In Marvel's Unexpectedly...
The Marvels arrives with everyone pretty much already having written it off. Ostensibly the sequel to 2019's $1.1B-grossing Captain Marvel, the film arrives with Marvel knocked...