Movie Review: The Northman
There are a lot of Egg heads out there. Robert Eggers has always been a filmmaker I admired, but I found watching his movies to …
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Movie Review: Turning Red
The beast within as a storytelling device has been a tale as old as time. When it comes to using animal transformation as a puberty …
Movie Review: X
In the horror community, there’s a reverence for movies like The Texax Chainsaw Massacre of the 1970s. Brutal, visceral depictions that push the boundaries of …
Movie Review: After Yang
The 2nd Feature from a director who’s made a brilliant first film always makes me giddy. You’re dreading an Elysium post District 9, but if …
Movie Review: The Worst Person in the World
Courtship and dating has changed a lot in the last 100 years. Once humanity’s survival is off the table, then religious/moral reasons took precedent. But …
Movie Review: The Fallout
School shooting movies tend focus on the buildup to the event itself, sensationalize/dramatize the shooting cruelly for viewers, or focus on the parents of the …
Movie Review: A Hero
Very few moviemakers out there have a way of making their films feel like parables or fables that should be told, generation to generation. One …
Movie Review: Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodovar and Bong Joon Ho are very similar storytellers. They usually find ways to weave in personal stories specific to their cultures into some …
Movie Review: Red Rocket
I knew Sean Baker was going to put it all together for me eventually. Baker’s last two films, Tangerine and The Florida Project, are pretty …
Movie Review: West Side Story (2021)
I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong. Having witnessed a pretty mediocre decade of Steven Spielberg movies, I wasn’t too excited about him …