Movie Review

2020 is a monster. Our culture, collective health, and politics have swung so wildly since the onset of COVID-19, each month’s news cycle containing more than a year’s worth of content, making one drop their jaws at the fact that it’s only June. In the midst of political, racial, and social turmoil comes writer/director Jon […]

Sometimes, you have to take a low-budget production as simply that – a piece of work constrained by time, scheduling, access to locations or assets, and the willingness for its participants to go all-in on the project. Driven is a fun, charming, and hilarious example of making the most out of what’s at hand, even […]

The following press synopsis tells you everything you could possibly learn from or about Darkness Falls: “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son killers. He’ll have to […]

The picaresque Tommaso examines the post-peak life of a former bigshot Hollywood director trying to find his creative spark again. As the titular Tommaso, Willem Dafoe gives what is arguably a command performance, stretching across his many years of experience to draw the breath on which Tommaso subsists. It’s a heavy, multilayered existence which Dafoe […]

There’s a brilliant magic to the quietly powerful courtroom drama The Collini Case (original German title: Der Fall Collini) in its storytelling. All of it stems from an elderly brooding man in police custody, Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero) – shown in the prologue to have killed wealthy German industrialist Hans Meyer (Manfred Zapatka) – and […]

Between John Hawkes’ timid mess of a father and Logan Lerman’s recently-imprisoned son, there’s a lot of awkward silence highlighting a world of difference. Frank Fogle, a man scared of his own shadow, and Sean, who won’t be cowed by anything, are about to embark on an intercontinental voyage which might prove blood is truly […]