Santa Claus Action Flick Can’t Sustain Its Clever Premise
The holiday action comedy “Violent Night” feels like it was sold in one of those pitch meetings from “The Player,” two guys in a room with Griffin Mill, excitedly announcing their brainchild: “It’s ‘Die Hard’ meets ‘Bad Santa!’” They presumably…
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The Road Dog | Film Threat
Director/co-writer Greg Glienna’s feature film, The Road Dog, tells the story of a man who has the opportunity to take a do-over on his life while forced to confront why his life went wrong in the first place. Doug Stanhope is…
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Alice Diop Challenges Our Conceptions of the Legal Drama
There are a lot of legal dramas out there. On television, this past year has seen great shows like Better Call Saul and ones that are less so like The Lincoln Lawyer. In film, there have been compelling works like…
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Missing Review | Flickreel
Most movies emphasize the dangers of technology. We’re slaves to our phones. Twitter is rotting our brain cells. It’s only a matter of time until Skynet takes over. Those assessments aren’t wrong per se, but does every movie need to…
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James Gunn Mixes The Absurd & The Vulgar With Heartwarming Delights
Filmmaker James Gunn’s modus operandi has been mostly the same but especially pronounced over the last few years. He’s always been attracted to misfits, outsiders, and the forgotten, and that’s always yielded lots of great, irreverent humor, championing the losers…
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Mind Bender Pushes Limits Of Reality & Patience
Home Movie Reviews Something In The Dirt Review: Mind Bender Pushes Limits Of Reality & Patience Benson and Moorhead have made it clear what they are interested in as filmmakers and this film is another trippy entry into their burgeoning…
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Al Pacino and Logan Lerman at Odds
At the end of the first season of Hunters, there were a series of significant twists that got dropped right into the middle of the story and shattered all we had come to know up until then. While this review…
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Matthew Macfadyen Shines in By-the-Book Political Drama
Truth is always stranger than fiction, as they say, and BritBox seems well aware of it with their latest offering: Stonehouse, a political drama starring Matthew Macfadyen as a member of Parliament who faked his death in the 1970s to…
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‘Strange World’ Could Stand To Be A Bit Stranger [Review]
There’s at least one element of Disney’s “Strange World” that lives up to the title: the animation. This hybrid of retro pulp magazine adventure with CGI spectacle throws out the rulebook when it comes to conjuring the flora and fauna…
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Where The Road Leads (Ovuda ce proci put)
The title of writer-director Nina Ognjanović’s offbeat drama, Where The Road Leads (Ovuda ce proci put), has several meanings. It might be referring to the mysterious young man who shows up in the out-of-the-way Serbian village to everyone’s shock. It…
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Neo-Noir Thriller Mimics Comic Book Language Too Well
On paper, there’s much to love about Door Mouse, Avan Jogia’s (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Zombieland: Double Tap) feature directorial debut. The movie can boast a solid cast, an urban setting infused with punk rock energy, and an…
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A Dramedy That Has The Right Idea But Wrong Tone
Home Movie Reviews I'm Totally Fine Review: A Dramedy That Has The Right Idea But Wrong Tone The underlying story is about dealing with grief, but I’m Totally Fine is neither nuanced nor funny enough to comment on that topic meaningfully.…
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