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April 27, 2024

'Baby Reindeer' Review: An Anguished Artist’s Reflections on Fame

Spoilers ahead Drawing from his semi-autobiographical play, English writer and actor Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer has captured attent...

April 23, 2024

Review: 'Abigail' is a Bloody Good Vampire Ballerina B-movie

Few people have had as good a past few years in horror as Radio Silence. Following the breakout success of Ready Or Not, the filmmaking colle...

April 23, 2024

Review: Snyder's ‘Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver’ is a Vacant Exhibition

For a year at the movies that include Dune: Part Two (2024), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Twisters (2024), and Joker: Folie à Deux (2024),...

April 17, 2024

‘The Night of the Hunter,’ Nearly 70 Years Later

The Night of the Hunter has stood the test of time ever since its release in 1955. While it was considered a box office failure at the time —...

April 16, 2024

Review: ‘The First Omen’ Makes You A Believer

On June 6th, 2006, my father and I walked into a theater to watch The Omen (2006), a remake of the Richard Donner classic. Once it was over, ...

April 15, 2024

‘Civil War’ Review: Dunst and Spaeny-Led Film Warns the World

I read a review about Alex Garland’s Civil War saying it was a horror movie. And while I have become rather fond of war films and the gruesom...

April 14, 2024

Sadie Benning: A Retrospective Look at Works of Feminist Self-Portraiture

At age 17, I began recording videos on my malfunctioning Acer laptop's webcam. I was inspired by YouTube self-talk videos where YouTubers wou...

April 12, 2024

Redefined Chick-flicks: Beyond Men and Romance

Chick-flicks have always been treated as an inferior ‘category.’ A clear ‘demarcation’ of sorts for the male and female sexes, action movies ...

April 12, 2024

'Monkey Man' Review: Dev Patel’s Engine for Kinetic Stunts and Static Social Commentary

If there was an Oscar for the Biggest Miracle of a Production that takes into account its constraints, obstacles, and chaos relative to its b...

April 2, 2024

Review: 'Asphalt City' Pummels You Into Wretched Submission

The first ten minutes of Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Asphalt City (2024) begins with Tye Sheridan’s Ollie Cross, a rookie EMT, awakening from a ...

April 1, 2024

Review: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Is Dumb Enough to Be Fun

It’s both a blessing and a curse that Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) should come out after the historic Oscar win for ...

March 31, 2024

‘Mom’ Review: An Honest Slice of Women’s Lives and Recovery

The receptionist at the hospital retorts when Bonnie (Allison Janney) keeps harping on why her daughter Christy (Anna Faris) has put her spon...

March 27, 2024

From 'Mean Girls' to 'Wicked:' Are Musicals Back?

With the success of Mean Girls, is 2024 finally the year of the musical with Joker 2 and Wicked: Part 1?

March 26, 2024

‘Road House’ Review: You Can Take the House From the Road, But Not the Road From the House

Of all the campy and ridiculous action movies released in the 1980s, Road House (1989), starring Patrick Swayze, might be the craziest. It’s ...

March 24, 2024

Review: Nostalgia Chillingly Decays in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

There’s a line from Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) when Annie Potts’s Janine greets Carrie Coon’s Callie Spengler, Callie asks if the house s...

March 23, 2024

Review: 'Late Night With The Devil' Catapults Dastmalchian to Infamy

From his screen debut in The Dark Knight (2008), David Dastmalchian has thrived playing creeps, criminals, and deranged sad individuals in wh...

March 23, 2024

SXSW 2024 Ranked

I was very fortunate to attend this year’s South by Southwest Festival for the first time. Throughout the eight-day-long festival, I managed ...

March 20, 2024

Review: Finding Oneself in 'Laapataa Ladies'

People do not always stay glued to their seats after the credits roll down, hoping to see after-credits. Laapataa Ladies (2024) made audience...

March 15, 2024

'Malta' Review: A Colombian Story With Universal Resonance

The grass will always be greener on the other side, especially when your side is covered in graffiti and tight city streets. Malta, which rec...

March 14, 2024

‘The Hobby’ Is More Than Just Colorful Cardboard

The world of board games is much bigger than just Monopoly and Risk. Simon Ennis, a director and avid gaming hobbyist, dives head first into ...

March 13, 2024

'We Were Dangerous' Review: Impressively Not Based on a True Story

There was one nagging question swirling around my head throughout my viewing of We Were Dangerous: is the “based on a true story” credit goin...

March 11, 2024

'Imaginary' is an Unimaginative, Horror-Free Dead Zone

Blumhouse Pictures continues its recent trend of PG-13 horror films where, much in the vein of Five Nights At Freddy’s (2023) and Night Swim ...

March 5, 2024

70 Years After The Black Lagoon: Average Story with Artistic Excellence

The last film in Universal’s famous “Monster Movie” portfolio and notably one of the first films to feature a monster designed by a woman, Mi...

March 2, 2024

'Dune: Part Two' Extends its Epic Scope and Material Grasp

Like Paul Atreidis (Timothee Chalamet) trekking the sands of Arrakis and navigating the beautiful landscapes, Dennis Villeneuve invites the v...

February 27, 2024

‘Hundreds of Beavers’ Review: A Fresh, Outrageously Funny Homage to Silent Filmmaking

What do you get when you cross the charm of classic Charlie Chaplin comedies, Looney Tunes cartoons and an isolated, snowy landscape with an ...

February 26, 2024

‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review: A Mid-Coen Raunchy Queer Romp

There’s an irreverence to Drive-Away Dolls (2024), Ethan Coen’s first solo directorial effort, that walks and talks like a classic Coen Broth...

February 23, 2024

‘It Happened One Night:’ 90 Years with the First Rom-Com

The idea of watching a 1930s black-and-white movie that hit the theatres when our grandparents were kids is not a usual weekend watch idea fo...

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Publications

'Baby Reindeer' Review: An Anguished Artist’s Reflections on Fame

Review: 'Abigail' is a Bloody Good Vampire Ballerina B-movie

Review: Snyder's ‘Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver’ is a Vacant Exhibition

‘The Night of the Hunter,’ Nearly 70 Years Later

Review: ‘The First Omen’ Makes You A Believer

‘Civil War’ Review: Dunst and Spaeny-Led Film Warns the World

Sadie Benning: A Retrospective Look at Works of Feminist Self-Portraiture

Redefined Chick-flicks: Beyond Men and Romance

'Monkey Man' Review: Dev Patel’s Engine for Kinetic Stunts and Static Social Commentary

Review: 'Asphalt City' Pummels You Into Wretched Submission

Review: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Is Dumb Enough to Be Fun

‘Mom’ Review: An Honest Slice of Women’s Lives and Recovery

From 'Mean Girls' to 'Wicked:' Are Musicals Back?

‘Road House’ Review: You Can Take the House From the Road, But Not the Road From the House

Review: Nostalgia Chillingly Decays in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

Review: 'Late Night With The Devil' Catapults Dastmalchian to Infamy

SXSW 2024 Ranked

Review: Finding Oneself in 'Laapataa Ladies'

'Malta' Review: A Colombian Story With Universal Resonance

‘The Hobby’ Is More Than Just Colorful Cardboard

'We Were Dangerous' Review: Impressively Not Based on a True Story

'Imaginary' is an Unimaginative, Horror-Free Dead Zone

70 Years After The Black Lagoon: Average Story with Artistic Excellence

'Dune: Part Two' Extends its Epic Scope and Material Grasp

‘Hundreds of Beavers’ Review: A Fresh, Outrageously Funny Homage to Silent Filmmaking

‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review: A Mid-Coen Raunchy Queer Romp

‘It Happened One Night:’ 90 Years with the First Rom-Com

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