With Just 2 Episodes Left, ‘High Potential’ Drops a Game-Changing Reveal for Its Biggest Mystery Ever
High Potential is now nearing the end of its second season, with just two episodes left after this week's episode, "Change of Plans." As such, each episode brings the show closer to solving the mystery of what happened to Roman…
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Paranormal Podcasting Gets The Folk Horror Treatment In The Inventive But Flawed A24 Horror Sensation
It might sound like damning with faint praise to say that the best visual moment of Ian Tuason’s feature directorial debut “undertone” is a black screen. However, it’s the truth – and meant as a compliment. For a film so…
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The Caretaker | Film Threat
There’s a specific kind of British horror where the ghosts and other creatures aren’t even close to being the monster in the building. No relation to Harold Pinter’s classic play of the same name, you have Luke Tedder’s film The…
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Dakota Fanning Gets Caught in a Love Triangle in This Solidly Grounded Romance
For a while, it seemed like every year, we were getting a new film by Joe Swanberg. As a major figure in the mumblecore movement, along with other filmmakers like Mark Duplass and Greta Gerwig, Swanberg made a name for…
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GOAT Review | Flickreel
It’s hard to believe that less than a decade ago, Sony Pictures Animation produced The Emoji Movie. The studio subsequently pulled the sharpest of 180s, making the Spider-Verse films, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and KPop Demon Hunters. Sony continues…
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A Melodrama That Mistakes Intensity for Insight
Directed by Vanessa Caswill and adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, Reminders of Him arrives with a built-in fanbase and a premise primed for emotional devastation. On paper, the film has the makings of a powerful romantic drama about guilt,…
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Christian Petzold’s Latest Is A Light Meditation On Doubling & Desire
From the outset of meeting Laura (Paula Beer), she seems lost and adrift. Peering over the railing of the highway while cars honk in passing, it’s unclear what she is doing here, nor what she plans to do. Mirrors No.…
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Jason Bateman and David Harbour Star In A Grim, Vital Study of the Male Loneliness Epidemic Wrapped in a Noir Mystery
Online discourse would rather pluck low-hanging fruit than take seriously exhaustively researched sociological data, which is why wading into the subject of male loneliness is less preferable than riding a bicycle without a seat. Men are, in fact, lonely, for…
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Prime Video’s Hoax Sitcom Has Plenty of Staying Power After a Major Rewrite
The concept of Jury Duty is predicated on "high risk, high reward." Creators Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky gambled that an ordinary person would take the dramatic twists and deeply funny antics of a jury duty gone wrong at face…
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Prime Video’s 6-Part Dark Comedy Quietly Turns Into an Intense Psychological Thriller
Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed’s new Prime Video series Bait opens with a scene that's almost painfully recognizable. With Ahmed's character, Shah Latif, standing on a lavish movie set while playing a version of James Bond for an audition, it’s…
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One Hour Girlfriend – Film Threat
In writer/director Gregory Hatanaka’s One Hour Girlfriend, an isolated man named Richard (Chris Spinelli) contracts with an agency to send a companion to his home for an hour, agreeing to pay $100K for her time. Melina (Sofia Papuashvili) arrives, unaware that…
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An Uncomfortable Satire About Midlife Unraveling
The limited series Vladimir is as an unusual hybrid of dark comedy, psychological drama, and academic satire. Adapted from the novel by Julia May Jonas, the eight-episode series follows a middle-aged literature professor whose carefully constructed life begins to fracture…
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