I ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS MOVIE UPON FIRST VIEWING... Night Nurse is written and directed by Georgia Bernstein. It follows an aimless young woman named Eleny who gets a job as a night nurse to an early-onset Alzheimer's patient named Douglas. Douglas is at once charming, but dangerous… and lures his
IF YOU LOVED THE U.K. "SKINS", THAN THIS MIGHT INTEREST YOU... Makoto Nagahisa returns to Sundance with his new movie BURN. If you took the show Skins, but set it in the streets of Japan and turned it into a nightmarish fever dream… you would get BURN. And being that Skins is one of my all-time
RUN AMOK IS BASED ON AN OSCAR-QUALIFYING SHORT FILM... Run Amok is written and directed by NB Mager based upon her Oscar-qualifying short film of the same name. It follows a teenager named Meg, who upon the ten year anniversary of the shooting at her high school, which left her mother dead…
THIS IS HORROR THAT HAS A WHOLE LOT TO SAY... Vera Miao writes and directs Rock Springs. It stars Kelly Marie Tran as a young mother who uproots her daughter and mother-in-law to Rock Springs, after the death of her husband. Reeling from their loss, they try to start anew in this
"JOSEPHINE" WAS THE WINNER OF THE GRAND JURY PRIZE & AUDIENCE AWARD AT SUNDANCE 2026 Many years ago, when she was just a child, writer/director Beth de Araujo saw a woman being sexually assaulted in Golden Gate Park. In a feat of bravery and an act of healing, she has put together a
Lost in the Reel's video review for Speak No Evil. Speak No Evil is a pitch-black satire on political correctness and politeness, that will keep you on edge until its final frame. This is such an excruciating watch to get through, as each scene builds upon itself, growing in dread until it's
Lost in the Reel's video review for Emergency.Emergency starts out as a "Wild College Party" movie and turns into something wholly different and far more satisfying by the end. The twists and turns this movie takes and it's complete 180 in tone might surprise you... But, it makes this film all
Lost in the Reel's video review for Emily the CriminalAubrey Plaza is the definitive Sundance darling of the last decade. Showing up in banger after banger with Ingrid Goes West, Black Bear, and now with Emily the Criminal. The amazing thing about these films is that they are
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.
Throughout all of our lives, there are people we grow close to who act as beacons, a light in human form that allows us to find our way through the darkness. Sometimes this light merely diminishes or changes, but other times these beacon friends can become anchors, as their influence exerts itself
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the