I am such a sucker for films that make their setting a character. The kind where the city itself is so integral to the story it can't be made anywhere else. I also love a good 70s crime thriller, character-driven narratives packed with equal heart and thrills. Enter The Only Living Pickpocket in
Psychosexual horror comedy featuring tentacle sex and a satirical sledgehammer to therapy culture is a hard sell anywhere. For something like that to work, you've got to be all in on the vibes. If not, the whole thing crumbles and becomes an insufferable sit, the hyper stylized execution more
I've had stock in Julia Ducournau since her debut film Raw, and doubled down on that buy in with her follow up Titane. So naturally my excitement for her third outing Alpha could not be contained. An expert in body horror mixed with insightful ideas of grief and generational trauma, Ducournau has
In television, hospital shows are a dime a dozen. The rise of The Pitt, the unstoppable longevity of Grey's Anatomy, and a number other hospital-centric shows reveal no shortage of fascination with medicine and trauma. It's often rare in cinema unless its haunted wards or part of a protagonist's
Michel Franco has always been a controversial writer/director. The kind of filmmaker who invites conflict while insisting on tackling complex themes of sex, class, and social systems. Franco has always presented his works with a sort of distant approach, and Dreams is no different. A cold, distant,
For a film festival seemingly set on remaining apolitical - from the programmers to the directors to the celebrities - it's kind of ironic that both of the Berlin Film Festival's winners were politically supercharged. The Golden Bear - the festival's most prestigious award went to Yellow Letters,
The Star Trek universe has been as expansive as the vastness of space it seeks to explore. There have been countless series that all tell a different part of the same world, sometimes running simultaneously. With the resurgence of things like Picard and Star Trek: Discovery, there's a renewed life
Often times there are two ways a film can go. Either the movie is better than its premise, or the premise is better than the movie. Hypnotic is the latter. It sports a solid premise that struggles immensely with execution. What transpires is a mess of a film; tonally imbalanced and heavily reliant
One of Aardman Animations' most popular characters, the intelligent and ever-inquisitive Shaun the Sheep, finally has another trip to the big screen. The Shaun movies have become a franchise of their own, spinning off the iconic Wallace & Gromit shorts and features into a well-loved TV series.
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
“By Any Means” treads familiar ground, but Mark Wahlberg shines as real life Hitman-turned-Fed informer Gregory Scarpa, and behind the tropes and cinematic conventions is the kernel of a true story that has relevance to this day. Mark Wahlberg is distracting (mostly in a good way) throughout
