Super Bad
Brightburn by Hope Madden Sort of a mash up of Superman and The Bad Seed, Brightburn wonders what would happen if that special little guy you found in the crashed…read more →
film reviews
Evening in Budapest
Sunset by Rachel Willis When Írisz Leiter (an intense and captivating Juli Jakab) returns to Budapest after a long absence, she seeks employment as a milliner in a hat store…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of May 13
Bunches of movies out this week in home entertainment, and a couple of them are quite amazing. Here’s the whole run down. Click the film title for the full review.…read more →
Screening Room: Detective Pikachu, The Hustle, Tolkien, Poms, Wild Nights with Emily, Hail Satan?, Charlie Says, Dogman
Woah – loads and loads of new movies out this week. Some of them good, some bad, all discussed on the podcast. Listen HERE.
Screening Room: Long Shot, UglyDolls, The Intruder, Her Smell, The River and the Wall, Ask Dr. Ruth
A lot of new movies opening in Edgame’s aftermath. We talk through the good, the bad, the ugly, the missable and what’s new in home entertainment, including Long Shot, UglyDolls,…read more →
It Ain’t Teen Spirit
Her Smell by Hope Madden “Kill your idols.” “Give them enough rope and they will do it themselves.” Apt lines from Alex Ross Perry’s new rock and roll meltdown, Her…read more →
Run Through It
The River and the Wall by Rachel Willis Director Ben Masters has an interest in the land along the Rio Grande. In making The River and the Wall, he hopes…read more →
Screening Room: Endgame, High Life, Family, Stockholm, JT LeRoy, I Trapped the Devil
Hey, is there anything new in theaters this week? Yes! Avengers: Endgame–maybe you’ve heard of it. But there are others you may not have heard of: Family, High Life, Stockholm,…read more →
I’ll Be You
JT LeRoy by Hope Madden Do you remember the JT LeRoy hubbub? Maybe you confuse it with the similar hullaballoo surrounding James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, the…read more →
Sympathy for the Devil
Stockholm by Hope Madden It’s amazing to think that a film has never been made of the heist that created the term “Stockholm Syndrome.” Well, writer/director Robert Budreau has rectified…read more →