In many ways, Resurrection feels like a Lifetime movie reworked and helmed by Brandon Cronenberg or Alex Garland. This is an immense...

I had really dug this film during early COVID quarantine, when it first made its way onto streaming platforms after a derailed theatrical...

As the internet collective undergoes a deeper respect of the horror genre, the discarded horror films of the 2000s have been revisited...

The human against nature conflict is external struggle positioning the character against the elements. Jack London and Ernest Hemingway...

Somehow a French-Canadian was capable of reaching deep into the psyche of rural Pennsylvania to evoke the region's terrifying, grim...

Oscar season is, and has been, in full swing. The regional critics have proven to mean little to this awards season, as the guilds and...

In May 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzig Norzay of Nepal became the first recorded explorers to reach the summit of Mount...

France de Meurs is a celebrated television journalist, slated in a primetime political hour by her network. When in the studio, she...

On my third (maybe fourth) viewing of Penguin Bloom, the result of needing a warm comfort film on a cold and rainy January morning, I...

"If your foot slips, we both fall." The warning is imposed upon Stanton "Stan" Carlisle by the final act Nightmare Alley, who already has...

An exploration of the underclass of the southern United States, Red Rocket may have been better served trimming much of its transparent...

At one point during Belfast, Caitriona Balfe's appropriately, vaguely named Ma states "all I've ever known is Belfast." I couldn't help...

I have never quite dipped into the Paul Verhoeven cinematic universe, save for a sliver of his work in the United States during the late...

"God is not bound by any rule book." Neither is Paul Verhoeven, who explores the scandals of historical-figure Sister Benedetta Carlini...

Chief parks cars for a living. Alicia sells luxury high rise condos sprinkling the skyline of Panama City. Plaza Catedral, the Panamanian...

Ever-shifting power dynamics are at play at Montana in the year 1925. The central characters in The Power of the Dog are not battling for...

The year of the Biopic. That year most certainly is not 2021. A biopic, after all, is a gentle balance between the faithful and the...

“I don’t think he’s right for you,” the flight attendant informs Ines while hovering over her new boyfriend, Leopoldo. “How about I kill...

Rita digs a shallow grave and asks her eight year-old daughter, Ana, to lay within the hollow, rectangular pit. The grave at first seems...

“I don’t remember why we wanted to leave this beach…it’s so beautiful.” Old, loosely adapted from the French graphic novel Sandcastle,...