There was a time when the stoner comedy was a reliable genre, particularly among the coveted demographic of young men. I remember those late nights in the college dorm quite fondly. Up late working on a paper last minute, ready for the weekend, and a friend suggests ordering a pizza and popping in
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Sometimes SXSW is the perfect festival for a film to premiere at: The festival is very audience-driven, and those attending know exactly what they're there for. Such is the case for Kirill Sokolov’s action horror comedy They Will Kill You. With elements of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise in
There's a growing trend in cinema right now, and that is the trend of movies being fun again. Just a good old-fashioned time at the theater (or home since streaming accounts for most viewership these days) filled with laughs and action and heart that remind you why you go to escape in the first
From the music-minded duo behind Once, John Carney and Peter McDonald trade soft romance for something far more morally grey with Power Ballad. If you thought “Falling Slowly” was an earworm, wait until you hear “How to Write a Song (Without You)” to move in and start rearranging furniture.
Prime Video’s Pretty Lethal does not tiptoe in. It crashes through the doors in pointe shoes and dares you to keep up. The story follows a group of American ballerinas traveling to Hungary for a major competition. But, before they even get close to the stage, everything that could go wrong goes
Drag is the kind of film that you want to go into completely blind. I will not spoil anything in this review! Drag (2026) comes from the mind of Raviv Ullman, who co-directed with Greg Yagolnitzer, best known as the star of Disney’s Phil of the Future. Coming out of SXSW, this is my favorite film
Dead Eyes drops you directly into the nightmare…whether you want to be there or not. Told entirely through a first-person POV, the film follows Sean (Rijen Lane) and his fiancée, Grace (Ana Thu Nguyen), as they venture deep into a remote forest in search of Sean’s missing father. His
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In Wishful Thinking, love isn’t just complicated, it’s cosmically unstable. Charlie (Lewis Pullman), a struggling musician, and Julia (Maya Hawke), an ambitious video game designer, are stuck in that uniquely frustrating relationship purgatory: they can’t make it work, but they can’t seem
Casper Kelly's Buddy is a mind-bending journey into a very dark version of children's television. Back in 2014, Casper Kelly gave the world "Too Many Cooks," an 11-minute dive into aging television conventions that swam deeper into a twisted darkness the longer it went on. It seemed a fun inheritor
I remember seeing the trailer for The Dog Stars and having my eyes roll back in my head. Do we really need more post-apocalyptic stories when we're living in a real life apocalypse? Do we need another movie that has an analog for COVID-19 and the aftermath that had on our own society. Well,
The Lantern Corps is a tricky thing to bring to life. We saw that with the 2011 movie Green Lantern. But Lanterns manages to put DC's "space cops" in a gritty reality where having the ring isn't everything. Chris Mundy, Watchmen and Lost's Damon Lindelof, and comic writer Tom King weave a story of
