Reviews and coverage from major film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, SIFF, TIFF, and Cannes, the best and the rest of festival cinema.
A film review of 'Anything for Jackson' written and directed by Justin G. Dyck and starring Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings as part of our Nighthawk 2020 Film Festival coverage.
A film review of 'Bloody Hell' directed by Alister Grierson and staring Ben O'Toole as part of our Nighthawk 2020 Film Festival coverage.
A film review of '32 Malasaña Street' directed by Albert Pintó and starring Begoña Vargas as part of our Nightstream 2020 coverage.
Sundance 2020 review of 'Relic' directed by Natalie Erika James and starring Emily Mortimer.
A remake of the critically-acclaimed Swedish drama Force Majeure, Downhill is kind of exactly like most American remakes of critically-acclaimed foreign dramas: amusing but unnecessary. A blue-square redo of a double-black-diamond story. With the hard-packed dual casting of Will Ferrell (who’s better here than he’s been in years) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who also produced), the...
Sundance 2020 movie review of 'Amulet' directed by Romola Garai and starring Alec Secareanu and Carla Juri.
Sundance 2020 review of 'Ironbark' directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Sundance 2020 review of 'Scare Me' written, directed by, and starring Josh Ruben.
Hell is a timeshare. A designated parcel of property allocated to your family for one immobile week each year. A curated escape, one characterized by pool floaties, crawfish-colored sunburns and frozen cocktails melting in plastic hurricane cups, that lives in a state of semi-stasis. There’s a kind of “Twilight Zone” quality to the whole notion...
Mean Girls meets Scream in Tyler MacIntyre’s trendy satirical midnight horror-comedy Tragedy Girls. Like Heathers for the social media age, MacIntyre’s coming-of-age serial killer misadventure satirizes iPhone-obsessed culture as two popular girls go on a killing spree in order to gain followers, accrue likes and establish a brand. A fucked-up ode to friendship first and foremost,...