It's officially Fall. While it might not feel like it in Southern California, elsewhere, the leaves are falling, everything is turning orange, and pumpkin spice is back. So to celebrate that momentous occasion and give myself something to picture in my head while Southern California stays the same
Lost in the Reel's Non-Spoiler video review for The Chestnut Man.Soren Sveistrup is the Danish mastermind behind the series The Killing, which was adapted to an AMC show and picked up later to be finished by Netflix. That bleak murder mystery series never found the audience it deserved, but I
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a fine follow-up to 2018's Venom. That movie was part of Sony's newly named "Sony's Spider-Man Universe". Now, we have this sequel that tries to amp up the stakes but never really feels like a threat to our "hero". The movie, directed by Andy Serkis isn't necessarily
Jordan Firstman's Club Kid was the talk of the town at this year's TIFF. As well as Telluride. And Cannes. Whatever film festival this film goes to, it invites the kind of enthusiasm that can shake mountains. Going in, I was nervous that Club Kid wouldn't live up to the lofty expectations I had set
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is a grounded, pulse pounding gut-punch of a film. A wholly unique experience that proves that you can still iterate on conventions and present them with a sense of newness.
What happens when you make a movie that's about four years too late on its subject matter? You get The Social Reckoning. At this point in our lives, we all know that social media is a cesspool and that a lot of that is Facebook/Meta's fault. They chose to act like the silent arbiter and actively
