Lost in the Reel's video review for When You Finish Saving the World.Welp... we got the first dud of the Sundance fest. I've always found Jesse Eisenberg to be uncomfortable and snarky, so I suppose it's no surprise that his directorial debut is both of those things.From his bedroom home
Lost in the Reel's video review of FreshI'm just going to get this pun out of the way before I start, because I just have to... but DAMN, was Fresh so refreshing. Rather than showing all of its cards up front, this insane little movie takes its time, peeling back each layer of its story,
Lost in the Reel's video review of Cha Cha Real SmoothCha Cha Real Smooth is 24-year-old Cooper Raif's second feature film, after the 2020 SXSW Grand Jury Prize Winner Sh*thouse. And after only two movies, I can safely say that I will go out of my way to see every production that this young
Lost in the Reel's non-spoiler video review of The Afterparty.As far as comedies go, we have experienced a dry spell as of late. It seems like there haven’t been any original mainstream comedies to come out in the theaters that have made a mark. Comedy on television hasn’t
Lost in the Reel's video review of Archive 81.When I heard James Wan was producing a new Netflix show revolving around cults… I didn’t need to hear anything more. I was already sold. And even though Wan doesn’t write or direct any of the eight episodes that comprise season one of
Ahhhh… once again we have reached the month of January, when studios dump their least desirable films into theaters. And the first wide release of 2022 comes in the form of the long-delayed The 355; a star-studded action film from Simon Kinberg, whose last directorial effort was the
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film is a dense exploration of a very specific part of Thomas Mann’s life and Germany’s history. Winning Best Picture at Cannes and chosen as Poland’s submission for Best International Film, the film expects a certain level of historical and geographic knowledge
