by Josh Terry | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Death of a Unicorn (2 ½ stars out of 4) A movie like “The Room” becomes infamous because it took itself seriously, with disastrous results. It was bad because it couldn’t help itself, and that turned it into a cult classic. A movie like “Sharknado” is a very different...
by Josh Terry | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (3 stars out of 4) Made in Zambia by director Rungano Nyoni, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a compelling if deceptive exploration of culture and family dynamics. The film opens late at night as the protagonist, a young woman named Shula...
by Cooper Hatsis | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews, Uncategorized
Electronic musician Flying Lotus returns to the silver screen with his latest sci-fi-horror film “Ash”. The film made its world premiere at the SXSW film festival and opened wide on March 21. The film follows Riya as she awakens in her space station on a foreign...
by Josh Terry | Mar 14, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Black Bag (3 ½ stars out of 4) When you break it down, Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag” becomes a bizarre recipe of pop culture elements: start with a “Mission: Impossible”-style save the world premise, but set it inside a British Intelligence internal subculture that...
by Cooper Hatsis | Mar 3, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
With the recent release of Osgood Perkins’s horror-comedy The Monkey, another Stephen King story has now been adapted into a film. The Monkey is inspired by a short story of the same title from a short collection called Skeleton Crew. While The Monkey might not...
by Dani Hatch | Feb 22, 2025 | Featured, Reviews
Premise Based on the true story of the LeRette family, young Austin (Jacob Laval) navigates life with brittle bone disease and autism, which–try as they may–can’t break him down. Far more than I expected I was anticipating a cheesy, possibly...