Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bing Liu (the documentary Minding the Gap) has turned his attention toward narrative filmmaking with the heartbreaking love story Preparation for the Next Life, concerning a pair of […]
The first two Conjuring films (both directed by James Wan) are two of the finest examples of a certain type of reality-based horror that the last couple of decades have […]
It’s been nearly two years to the day when I first saw the extremely fun and excessively gory remake of arguably the most famous of all of Troma Entertainment’s cinematic […]
Marking his feature filmmaking debut, writer/director Alex Russell delivers a fine-tuned examination of ego, stardom and entitlement in Lurker, a thriller where the scariest moments are the ones that ring […]
Based on the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, The Roses is a new adaptation that moves the action from Washington D.C. to the west coast […]
On the eve of chatting with Splitsville co-writers Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino (Covino also directed the film), it occurred to me that my last sit-down with them was […]
When writers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin wrote their first feature, The Climb, some 5-6 years ago, they ended up making one of the definitive works about modern friendship […]
With each new movie, Austin Butler continues to impress and surprise me a little bit more, and in the hands of Darren Aronofsky (The Whale, Black Swan, The Wrestler) and […]
There are not many movies like A Little Prayer, written and directed by Angus MacLachlan. It’s quietly understated, with a simple plot pushed forward with emotional performances from stars David […]
I have mixed feelings about Olivier Assayas’ most recent film Suspended Time (his latest, The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictional portrait of the man who enabled Putin’s rise to […]
When is elderly people solving crimes not trendy? Now imagine some of the greatest British elders doing so in a film directed by Chris Columbus (the first two Harry Potter […]
In this clever and modest retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” writer-director Kelsey Taylor’s To Kill A Wolf tells the story of a reclusive Oregon woodsman (known only as the […]