As much as I tend to cringe at the idea of most film remakes, for some reason, the thought of legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo (Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Hard […]
From the highly entertaining and inventive horror filmmakers The Adams Family (last year’s Where The Devil Roams, and 2021’s Hellbender) comes their take on and love letter to classic sci-fi-driven […]
Based on the best-selling 2013 novel by Edward Kelsey Moore (adapted by Cee Marcellus, which is actually a pen name for Gina Prince-Bythewood, with revisions by director Tina Mabry), The […]
Plenty of movies are meant to be an escape, a fleeting couple hours’ entertainment featuring superheroes or meet-cutes or triumphant protagonist’s journeys. In the world of documentaries, escapism is hard […]
Set 20 years after the original Ridley Scott-directed Alien, Alien: Romulus centers on a much younger but no less grungy group of characters who escape their mining colony home/prison planet […]
Although the film isn’t meant to be autobiographical, it probably comes as no surprise that Close to You star/producer Elliot Page has a “Story by” credit for this small and […]
Feeling more like a well-made TV movie of the week than an actual big-screen film, Skincare is the feature debut by director Austin Peters (a popular music video director, who […]
It wasn’t slotted in the Midnight section, but War Game, from directors Jesse Moss (of Girls State) and Tony Gerber, might be one of the most frightening films that premiered at Sundance […]
It’s never a great sign when a film’s protagonist utters the movie’s title in a line of dialogue, however perfectly placed or delivered. Such is the case for It Ends […]
For some, the best news about the new film starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, The Instigators, is that it’s not a sequel to their original pairing, the 2002 Gus […]
Released under the Hammer Films banner (although I’m not exactly sure what the connection is between this iteration of Hammer Films and the blood-soaked classics from the 1960s-’70s) comes a […]
When I was in my early teens, my family and I made a habit of taking cross-country trips (I grew up in the Washington, DC, area). We’d always take a […]