HOUSE OF SPOILS: Mostly Just Rotten Food
HOUSE OF SPOILS: Mostly Just Rotten Food

House of Spoils is striking and interesting at first, but by the time the action comes it is too little, too late.

THE MONKEY: A Disgustingly Bloody Good Time
THE MONKEY: A Disgustingly Bloody Good Time

Like a Saturday Morning cartoon drenched in blood, The Monkey throws everything it can at its audiences.

NOSFERATU: More Than A Mustache
NOSFERATU: More Than A Mustache

Nosferatu is a cinema masterpiece, an art house piece from an indie director who could do anything he wanted yet he chooses to make high art.

Slamdance 2025: Standout: The Ben Kjar Story and Know Me
Slamdance 2025: Standout: The Ben Kjar Story and Know Me

For this installment of Slamdance coverage, we’re looking at an inspiring documentary and a gripping fictional drama based on a true story.

Slamdance 2025: My Omaha and The Hole Story
Slamdance 2025: My Omaha and The Hole Story

Today, we’re looking at two documentaries: One focusing on social justice in Omaha, and another exploring a mysterious hole in northern California.

PLAY IT AS IT LAYS and the Existential Nightmare of Hollywood
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS and the Existential Nightmare of Hollywood

Play It as It Lays is the rare adaptation of a literary masterpiece that lives up to the source material.

COMPANION: Not Your Typical Robot Buddy
COMPANION: Not Your Typical Robot Buddy

It’s 97 minutes of pure bonkers cinema and it deserves to be watched by as many people as possible.

"Nickel Boys" (2024) - source: Amazon MGM Studios
NICKEL BOYS: An Uneven Experiment In Perspective

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys follows a young man,…

Slamdance Film Festival 2025: RACEWALKERS

Racewalkers reminds us of the beauty in embracing the quirky, the unconventional, and the unexpected.

HEART EYES: Valentine's Day Is No Longer Safe
HEART EYES: Valentine’s Day Is No Longer Safe

Heart Eyes is an ode to holiday horror-slasher films of the past, coming into a space that has been left vacant for a while and solidly planting their flag.

Slamdance 2025: American Theater and Foul Evil Deeds
Slamdance 2025: American Theater and Foul Evil Deeds

We’re taking a look at a documentary following a conservative musical theater production and an ensemble dark comedy about people acting out in suburbia.

THE QUIET ONES: Going Through the Motions

Teal and orange have made a serious comeback, at least in Frederik Louis Hviid’s new…

One Night in Tokyo review
ONE NIGHT IN TOKYO: A Modest Indie Overcoming The Barrier of Language

Any chance I get to live vicariously through someone else’s experience in Japan, I’ll take…

EAT THE NIGHT: A Clumsy but Emotionally Resonant Gamer Thriller
EAT THE NIGHT: A Clumsy but Emotionally Resonant Gamer Thriller

In the end Eat the Night manages to make myself, a video-game skeptic, more of a believer of its affecting power.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD REVIEW
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD: It’s Actually An OK Time

Captain America: Brave New World is not the movie that will bring Marvel skeptics back to the franchise. Underneath, it’s still the same formula.