I Wanted To Like This Screenlife Horror Movie More Than I Did But It Undermines Its Own Effectiveness
Bloat is a low-budget horror movie with ambitions that are a touch too lofty given its limitations. The feature-length debut of Tokyo-based filmmaker Pablo Absento, it is the latest movie to take on the "screenlife" format popularized by titles such…
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Bode Plays a Dangerous Game
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Fire Country Season 3 Episode 14. If anyone doubted that we were in for a humdinger of an episode of Fire Country this week, the bluegrass cover of "Stand By Me" at…
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I Mean, Yeah, It’s About THAT, but Also So Much More
From the title alone, The Threesome implies romantic entanglements and difficult dynamics. Sure, the actual sex might be fun, but consider the larger implications of what a threesome means, if you pay too much attention to one person and disregard…
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Yes, It’s About Time-Traveling Tequila, But Don’t Expect a Party
Nicholas Clifford tackles a formidable foe in his feature debut: time loops. One More Shot is a romantic(ish) comedy about time-traveling tequila that, for better or worse, safely pads its temporal elements. Humor overrides the need to thoroughly explain science…
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I Wish Clive Barker’s Short Story Adaptation Didn’t Play It So Safe Because It’s Wonderfully Animated
While some may wait to start with the likes of the Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street franchises when they're older, some kids look to get into horror at a younger age, and have always had a variety…
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Errol Morris’ Netflix Documentary Walks a Fine Line Between Investigation and Conspiracy Theory
In 1969, the dream died. Chances are you've heard that one before. Also, it is quite likely you know pretty well what dream we are talking about: it's, of course, the hippie dream of a more equal and just world…
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The ‘Parasite’ and ‘Fresh’ Mash-Up No One Was Hungry For
Hollywood has been inundated with “eat-the-rich” films for the past twenty years as society grapples with an increasingly tenuous class disparity. The results of this emerging genre have had their own disparity, as films like the Best Picture winner Parasite…
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Netflix’s Villain-Led ‘SpongeBob’ Spin-Off Is a Surprising Delight
Ah, SpongeBob SquarePants, an animated series that has enjoyed a long-lasting career that most children's shows only dream of. As hard as it might be to believe, Nickelodeon's highly lucrative talking sponge (Tom Kenny) just recently turned 25 years old,…
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I Was Compelled Yet Underwhelmed By Amanda Seyfried’s Dreamy, Nightmarish Drama That Falls Prey To Its Worst Tendencies
Despite my best efforts, I couldn't stop thinking about Tár while watching Seven Veils. Even though these two movies are actually quite different, the concepts of power dynamics and long-held secrets within grand artistic institutions almost made them of a…
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John Lithgow And Geoffrey Rush Can’t Help This Baffling Thriller
Every so often, a film comes along that, from the outset, might appear relatively inconsequential. Perhaps it features two actors with a résumé as long and exceptional as any Hollywood legend; possibly its nursing home setting and premise of a…
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Lucy Hale’s Swipes Right on a Killer
After her breakthrough role in Pretty Little Liars, Lucy Hale has recently starred in a string of films that offer her own brand of laughs or terror. She confidently struts down the rom-com path with wholesome installments of The Hating…
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We’re Dead in the Water!
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Doctor Odyssey Episode 9. It has been a long three months since Doctor Odyssey’s favorite throuple steamed up their primetime slot. The midseason finale saw Avery (Phillipa Soo) paying the price for…
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