The Boys’ Colby Minifie Is Impressive In A Chilling Supernatural Horror About Grief That Had Much More To Give
The Surrender is a journey. It instantly drew me into the story as it centered on a mother-daughter relationship that was fraught long before the patriarch’s final days, the reason Megan (Colby Minifie) returns to her childhood home. Writer-director Julia…
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A Solid, Twisted Debut From Jimmy Warden
Jimmy Warden’s Borderline is a high-wire act of genre blending, balancing dark comedy with home invasion thrills in an audacious, if at times inconsistent, directorial debut. Anchored by a committed performance from Samara Weaving and a genuinely unsettling turn by…
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Matthew McConaughey Neo-Western Dramedy Is Far More Than Just “Alright, Alright, Alright”
Made on a budget of just $700,000, Andrew Patterson's directorial debut The Vast of Night was quite an impressive feat. The Twilight Zone-inspired sci-fi mystery followed two young radio technicians who found a strange audio frequency stemming from a UFO,…
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From Solving Puzzles To Solving Murders, This Is One Charming Show
In this era when it’s difficult to turn one’s head without being bombarded by a barrage of news more distressing than what graced headlines the day prior or a new horrific global event worse than the last, there’s nothing like…
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A Genuinely Haunting Sci-Fi Thriller That Filled Me With Chilling Dread But Left Me Wanting More
Ash is unsettling, I’ll give it that much. Flying Lotus, who directed the film, knows how to set the tone for what’s to come and I was instantly drawn into the mystery. Visually, the film is wondrous yet creepy and…
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A Camgirl by Any Other Name
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Watson Episode 6.Watson finally hit its stride last week, and with Episode 6, “The Camgirl Inquiry,” the series is proving there’s a lot of truth to the sentiment that the best is…
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We Knew This Moment Was Coming, but We Still Weren’t Prepared for It
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 5. A missing gun looms over the newest episode of The White Lotus Season 3, as the closing scenes of the previous episode gave us a…
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An Emotionally Vacant Sci-Fi Misfire
You would think that after helming the once-in-a-lifetime cinematic event Avengers: Endgame, directors Anthony and Joe Russo would cement themselves as two of the best filmmakers in the industry but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Their efforts since that…
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It Only Gets Easier For Me To Fall In Love With Cher & Nicolas Cage’s Sentimental Romance With Each Passing Year
From the moment the first lines of "That's Amore" are plucked out during the opening titles of Moonstruck, you know exactly what you're in for. For those who've never seen the film, the fact that Cher lent her star power…
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Harvey Specter Stops By in the Show’s Best Installment Yet
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Suits LA Episode 4.Suits LA has finally figured out its identity crisis, and all it takes is another TV star cameo and Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) to make it happen. Enrico Colantoni…
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Has Colter Shaw Finally Gone Too Far?
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 13. In this week's episode of Tracker, Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) enters the world of espionage — and not the corporate kind. Even though he's somehow survived multiple…
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A Slick, Suspenseful Spy Thriller
Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag is a taut and stylish espionage thriller that plays with themes of trust, betrayal, and duty in the murky world of intelligence operations. Written by David Koepp, the film delivers a tense, emotionally charged narrative that…
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