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Ang Lee’s follow up to the Oscar winning Brokeback Mountain went underlooked, getting polite, yet not overly enthusiastic reviews and received zero Oscar nominations. However, I’d put it forth as one of the great films of 2007 and is more than deserving of the growing appreciation it’s received over the years; an intoxicating masterpiece of espionage and eroticism.
Read MoreThe best way to describe the way I felt leaving Predator: Badlands, a new installment in the Predator franchise, was satisfaction. There is something so pleasurable in watching a movie do exactly what it needs to do, but without pandering or cutting corners.
Read MoreWith a comedic tone and a political message that both felt surface level at best, I was left hoping for a tastier fortune cookie.
Read MoreIn Eternity, a new romantic dramedy from director David Freyne, life, love, and death are all potent ingredients that make for a compelling plot.
Read MoreWhat happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
Read MoreNinja Terminator tells the story of three ninjas, led by Ninja Master Harry (Richard Harrison), who pull off a heist against an all-powerful, entirely-evil, oddly-omnipresent crime empire run by ninjas.
Read MoreExit 8 is an admirable experiment: a video game adaptation that doesn’t just replicate its source but reimagines it as a metaphor for daily life, where the routines we take for granted may be leading us deeper into a purgatory of our own making.
Read MoreThe Mastermind is a welcome return to higher stakes storytelling, with surprising splashes of slapstick comedy.
Read MoreEnjoying its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, The Boy from St. Croix is a heartfelt documentary of Hall-of-Fame professional basketball player Tim Duncan.
Read MoreRebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life (2025) is an enjoyable comic mystery that proves that the therapist is the last person to know what’s going on.
Read MoreUltimately, The Unexpecteds is about people trying their best to navigate a system that is designed to make sure they never win.
Read MoreHot, sweaty, and filled with dread, Sirāt goes there and takes you alongside it whether you wanted that or not.
Read MoreIt’s interesting that we don’t really get movies about monkeys very often, let alone horror movies about how scary monkeys are.
Read MoreThe Carpenter’s Son doesn’t want to be the kind of film I was expecting it to be.
Read MoreLike the other two movies in the series, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is convoluted, preposterous, and often downright silly. In other words, it’s what basically any mainstream American caper of the last few decades has been.
Read MoreBenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back as the iconic, deeply Southern, master detective for the third installment of the Knives Out Franchise in writer/director Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, but this time, something feels different.
Read MoreIn a world where there is no such thing as job security, No Other Choice resonates as an apt satire-thriller of employment anxiety.
Read MoreThe Black Phone left far more questions than answers. And given how Black Phone 2 plays out, maybe those questions should’ve stayed unresolved.
Read MoreFrom the supernatural ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and demons, to the more cold-blooded reality of violent murderers and devious psychopaths, there are more than enough options to chill a viewer to the core. Despite all of these more traditional horrors, nothing affects me quite so much as the very real fear of simply losing my grasp on reality without any kind of warning, and at its core, this is what Gaspar Noe’s Climax is all about.
Read MoreGothic is a fascinating watch, to be sure, especially with a packed Weird Wednesday crowd on a well-preserved 35mm print. That said, it depends entirely on the viewer as to whether or not this is a brilliant, hallucinogenic trip into madness, or the equivalent of showing up to a party where all your friends have already taken their substances of choice while you choose to remain sober and watch over them to make sure nothing too stupid happens.
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