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Layering imagery in its liquid prowling camera, inky shadows and foggy alleys, Terrible exudes effortless cool with splashes of modern ultraviolence, ending in a downbeat cliffhanger and a switch to eye-popping color for a preview of the sequels.
Read MoreMake no mistake, The Sheep Detectives, as a film, is strange. However, using sheep as a metaphor for groupthink versus individualism, commodification, and prejudice works.
Read More‘I’m here, I’m Homoti, get used to it.’
Read MoreDespite its oddball ending and workmanlike production, Riverbend is a noteworthy blend of drive-in shoot ‘em up and radical historical revisionism.
Read MoreThe act of watching Alpha is better described as deflating and tedious, a filmmaker doing some impressive moves, but ultimately stumblingly to the finish line.
Read MoreRecently returning to theaters in Austin, Stop Making Sense is, 42 years on, still a masterpiece in austerity and obfuscated movement highlighting the ecstasy of performing in a live musical setting.
Read MoreThe brilliance of James Van Der Beek’s performance shines brightest in the moments where the actor allows Rick’s mask of the golden boy to slip. The young actor makes each moment count, and thus demonstrates his Hollywood potential.
Read MoreNot every film needs to be built. Some films need to be survived. Help!!! is that kind of movie, and it earns every one of those three exclamation points.
Read MoreContrary to what one might think, Capturing Bigfoot isn't about proving or disproving Bigfoot.
Read MoreSharing the actual journey would be doing Is God Is a disservice. This is a powerful tale of young black women on a quest to do what needs to be done, come Hell or high water.
Read MoreNirvanna: The Band - the Show - the Movie really is that stupid. It is also really great.
Read MoreBumpkin Soup and Abnormal Family each take a hand at blowing up the conventional ideas about pink films and films in general.
Read MoreVampyros Lesbos is an experience where logic and reality are afterthoughts, a truly dreamlike film that exists as a delivery method for beautiful women doing strange and exciting things around some lavishly-designed contemporary decor while one of the grooviest psychedelic scores of all time takes things to another dimension.
Read More“Breaking Silence” explores disability, communication access, and family relationships. For Director Amy Bench, these themes were universal, relatable components that transformed this narrative from an introspection on incarceration and reentry to a vérité look at community and transformation.
Read MoreIn a time when the world’s most powerful countries attempt to extract commerce with the threat of violence, Magellan prompts the question: has anything really changed all these centuries later?
Read MoreIn protecting Michael Jackson’s memory so fiercely from “Wacko Jacko” negative energy, the filmmakers fail to create a believable human portrait.
Read MoreHard Target (1993), while sometimes dismissed as a middling Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle, has taken its honorable place in John Woo’s filmography.
Read MoreWhile director Miko Lim does craft a visually arresting documentary—with both his own filmography and his subject’s archival footage—he’s less successful in telling the story of the man at the center of it.
Read MoreI Love Boosters is a fun albeit confusing bit of mess. But for every half baked detail this movie offers, it makes up in style and acting which seems like a bit of a Boots Riley show.
Read MoreLove Me Deadly is a baffling enigma of a film.
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