Borderline already had me on its side from the beginning by copping the title of Madonna's early hit single to underscore everything that it does best as both a stalker thriller and a movie about obsession with pop music. But…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Severance Season 2 Episode 9. It was all Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) all the time in last week's episode of Severance. Her return to Salt's Neck revealed much about both Cobel's background…
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With movie theaters and streaming platforms overflowing with sequels and remakes, new and fresh ideas are always welcome. The Devil and the Daylong Brothers is a daring project. Directed by Brandon McCormick, The Devil and the Daylong Brothers mixes action,…
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The latest animated feature from the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, Plankton: The Movie, takes center stage as the second in a series of character-focused spin-off films. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, this animated musical comedy puts the series’ resident…
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie ushers in a new era for the Looney Tunes franchise by going back to basics. Back in 1996, Looney Tunes moved on from doing feature-length compilation cartoons to making a…
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The first scene of Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De’s propulsive new documentary “Take No Prisoners” begins with a prisoner exchange. As the camera peers through a porthole window of a private jet, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs (SPERA) Roger…
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Watching Ronan Corrigan’s LifeHack transported me back to South by Southwest 2015, where I saw the premiere of Leo Gabriadze’s Unfriended. I sat there enamored by what would become a landmark kickstart for the screenlife horror movement, hypnotized by its…
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Under the Shadow filmmaker Babak Anvari returns to South by Southwest this year with an atypical one-location thriller. Hallow Road is every parent's nightmare, but its approach is uncommon. Actors Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys generate tension through a telephone…
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Sometimes a film will set the stage for what comes next and we learn to anticipate that predictability, which can be good or bad depending on how well the story is executed. Other times, the buildup goes to an unexpected…
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Some movies grab you by the throat from the very first scene — and Novacaine does exactly that. The moment R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts started playing in the opening scene, I knew I was in for a ride. What starts off…
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To be perfectly honest, I knew very little about Nirvanna the Band the Show before I walked in to see Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. All I knew was the name, because that's clearly something you don't forget.…
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AUSTIN – Every so often, you see a film that leaves you questioning nearly everything about its construction when it turns what it’d been building on its head. In the best-case scenario, this can be interesting when the way it…
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