Category: Reviews
A Friend Break-Up Causes Utter Chaos In The Most Uncomfortable Comedy You’ll Ever Watch
A Friend Break-Up Causes Utter Chaos In The Most Uncomfortable Comedy You’ll Ever Watch

Friendship break-ups are brutal. No matter how long you've been friends, if you're on the receiving end, it can feel like a rebuke of your entire personhood. For Craig Waterman, it's especially tough. He's not necessarily a guy who has…

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Chloe Fineman Gives Generation Z the Teen Sex Comedy They Deserve
Chloe Fineman Gives Generation Z the Teen Sex Comedy They Deserve

Teen sex comedies used to be all the rage. Who can forget Jason Biggs ejaculating into an apple pie in American Pie or Michelle Trachtenberg and Travis Westers' "twincest" in EuroTrip? The sub-genre has died down over the years, largely…

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The Eras Tour for Letterboxd Users
The Eras Tour for Letterboxd Users

Music is a crucial element of film. We’ve all seen the videos of horror movie trailers being re-edited to look like comedies and vice versa, with sound making a world of difference in establishing tone. Good scores have the power…

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Jay Duplass’ Hilarious May/December After Hours Adventure Is A Super Winning Charmer [SXSW]
Jay Duplass’ Hilarious May/December After Hours Adventure Is A Super Winning Charmer [SXSW]

What if Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” was transformed from something less comedically nihilistic and Kafka-esque and shifting towards the unexpected romantic comedy genre with a dash of May/December age and cultural differences on top to give it extra flavor and…

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Daisy Ridley Is Quietly Gripping In A Refreshingly Modest Take On The Zombie Genre
Daisy Ridley Is Quietly Gripping In A Refreshingly Modest Take On The Zombie Genre

In a genre currently dominated by the likes of The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, you'd be hard-pressed to find a zombie movie that doesn't recycle the genre's more iconic elements in some way, shape or form. Thankfully,…

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‘The Voice’ Season 27 Episode 7 Recap: It’s Ladies’ Night!
‘The Voice’ Season 27 Episode 7 Recap: It’s Ladies’ Night!

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Voice Season 27, Episode 7.The Battles battle on as The Voice Season 27 coaches continue to shrink their team, hoping their fellow celebrities steal their fallen artists. It's never easy to be…

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John Cena Goes Full Supervillain and Insults Children on This Week’s Explosive ‘WWE Raw,’ Plus More Highlights You May Have Missed
John Cena Goes Full Supervillain and Insults Children on This Week’s Explosive ‘WWE Raw,’ Plus More Highlights You May Have Missed

Tonight, WWE Raw broadcast live from Brussels, Belgium as part of a three-week tour to Europe on the road to WrestleMania 41. We were promised that John Cena and Cody Rhodes would appear under the same roof, and boy, it…

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Kate Mara’s Sci-Fi Thriller Has Sky-High Ambitions, but Not the Reach
Kate Mara’s Sci-Fi Thriller Has Sky-High Ambitions, but Not the Reach

Jess Varley's feature debut, The Astronaut, is captivating science fiction that delivers efficient extraterrestrial chills—until it's not. We love an ambitious genre-bender and fearless storytelling, of course. Kate Mara is a fantastic leading talent and has stalked the horror genre…

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One of China’s Classical Novels Is Getting an Ambitious Animated Film Trilogy
One of China’s Classical Novels Is Getting an Ambitious Animated Film Trilogy

Journey to the West has been adapted multiple times since it was first published in the 16th century, but this story holds relevance to this day as it was announced that it will receive a film trilogy. Variety reported that…

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Eiza González and Aaron Paul Lead a Funky Sci-Fi Horror That Steals From the Greats
Eiza González and Aaron Paul Lead a Funky Sci-Fi Horror That Steals From the Greats

Despite only having two features and two short films under his belt, musician-turned-director Flying Lotus has already found a specific niche as a filmmaker. His 2017 debut Kuso combined the darkest of dark comedy, raunchiness, and loads of gross-out body…

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The Boys’ Colby Minifie Is Impressive In A Chilling Supernatural Horror About Grief That Had Much More To Give
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
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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