‘Mid-Century Modern’ TV Review: Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer and Nathan Lee Graham are a Golden Team of Spiritual Sisters [B]
Funerals are great fodder for comedies. From Curb Your Enthusiasm to The Wonder Years to, of course, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, death on a... Read More
Reviews
‘Hot Milk’ Review: Emma Mackey Blazes Through Choppy Mother-Daughter Portrait [C] | BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
There’s a moment in Hot Milk that looks like a dream: a young woman is floating in the cyan-blue sea under the Spanish sun. It’s... Read More
‘Snow White’ Review: Rachel Zegler IS the Fairest of Them All in Marc Webb’s Fairytale Remake [C+]
For the past decade, the Walt Disney Company has been pillaging its back catalog of animated films, turning them into gaudy, garish live-action spectacles that... Read More
‘The Alto Knights’ Review: But They’re Gangsters, Identical Gangsters All the Way [C]
Gangster films have been a staple of cinema since the earliest days and over the last fifty years, few actors are as synonymous with the genre... Read More
‘The Astronaut’ Review: In This Space, No One Cares If You Scream | SXSW
A familiar premise isn’t always a bad thing when it comes to horror and science fiction, so long as it’s presented through a new point... Read More
SXSW 2025 Reviews: ‘Fantasy Life,’ ‘Slanted,’ ‘Uvalde Mom’
For the third dispatch from the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, we take a look at three films centered around female-led stories, two films in the... Read More
SXSW 2025 Reviews: ‘The Dutchman,’ ‘$POSITIONS,’ ‘We Bury the Dead’
Sometimes you go to a festival and they aren’t all winners. Over the last couple of years, I’ve gone to film festivals and seen some... Read More
‘My Uncle Jens’ Review: Brwa Vahabpour’s Feature Debut is an Effective Telling of a Complicated Family, Assimilation and Immigration (B+) | SXSW
It goes without saying that family is complicated. We all have at least one family member who causes us the utmost stress yet we choose... Read More
‘Holland’ Review: Nicole Kidman Muddles Through a Stale Suburban Mess but at Least Her Wig is Fresh [C-] | SXSW
The tulips in Holland, Michigan aren’t usually splattered in blood. In the small town inhabited by the descendants of Dutch immigrants, the conservatism of the... Read More
SXSW 2025 Reviews: ‘The Threesome,’ ‘Forge,’ ‘The Rivals of Amziah King’
A complicated romantic dramedy, a cat and mouse thriller involving art forgery, and a slice of life epic from the South make up the titles... Read More
American Film Institute (AFI) Announces 2027 Date for AFI AWARDS Honorees-Only Event 
SXSW 2026 Reviews: ‘Family Movie,’ ‘Crash Land,’ ‘Kill Me’ 
San Quentin Film Festival (SQFF) to Hold Event at Central California Women’s Facility 
‘Never After Dark’ Review: Dave Boyle’s Ghostly Spooker Will Keep You Guessing [B] SXSW