Film Review: The Grinch (2018)
Another month passes, another moderate success from the last 30 years gets remade. On the roulette wheel of Hollywood desperately searching for new franchises…
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Film Review: You Might Be The Killer (2018)
Horror as a genre has weathered every change that filmmaking movements and social change can throw at it. As the popular, if untrue, adage…
Film Review: Puzzle (2018)
If ever there was to be an award for clearest metaphor, Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine) would win it hands down for Puzzle — a…
Review: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2018)
Back in 2000, the film gods gave us Billy Elliot, a story about a boy who wanted to break gender stereotypes and be a…
Film Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
The Nutcracker ballet has long been a staple of children’s Christmas entertainment, offering a world of dolls, mice, and best of all, dancing sweets….
Film Review: The Children Act (2017)
Ian McEwan’s penchant for fine storytelling is on display once more in The Children Act. Based on his novel of the same name, McEwan…
Film Review: I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (2018)
Few things make people roll their eyes as much as a girl obsessed with a boyband. The crazy, screaming teenage girl who has lost…
Film Review: Wolfman’s Got Nards (2018)
In the current moment of popular culture there is no force more powerful than 1980s nostalgia. This isn’t too surprising, because as a general…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Watching with neck craned from the second row, it may be tempting to blame a middling response to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald…
Film Review: Shoplifters (2018)
Shoplifters is a film with little subtext, overtones or hidden meanings. It’s a film that offers up its narrative and characters simply, and ruminates…