Anora Mixes Comedy and Drama to Explore The Psyche of Dancers (Middleburg Film Festival)
Winter/director Sean Baker is back with a new film that stays close to his trademark penchant for realistic portrayals of working class segments of society not often explored that has been buzzing on the film festival circuit. Anora is…
Read More »Saturday Night Utilizes Strong Visuals To Tell an OK Story
Saturday Night Live has become a television landmark and staple of American entertainment, something you expect to always be around like Madison Square Garden or the Hollywood sign. Things weren’t always so stable for the show as its…
Read More »Joker: Folie à Deux’s Meta Commentary Boring Rather Than Poignant
Joker was a controversial hit in 2019, using the iconic comic book villain as a conduit to explore real world, grounded themes in a gritty, Scorsese like world. Director Todd Phillips defied the odds and created a billion…
Read More »Megalopolis Is…a Bizarre Swan Song for a Cinematic Legend
Francis Ford Coppola bet a lot on his newest release in theaters. The director of multiple legendary films that stand as the best ever produced sold part of his stake in his winery empire to self fund the…
Read More »Strange Darling Subverts Expectations in Entertaining, Enlightening Fashion
Every year, an indie darling emerges in the film scene to near universal acclaim and hype among cinephiles. For 2024, an indie horror thriller seems to have taken the title. Strange Darling is set in the Pacific Northwest…
Read More »Blink Twice Has Interesting Visuals, Less Interesting Story
Actress Zoe Kravitz makes her directorial debut with a new thriller in theaters. Blink Twice introduces us to cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) who has a massive crush on tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum). King holds a…
Read More »Trap’s Delicious Thrills and Josh Hartnett Help It Overcome a Bumpy Third Act
Director M. Night Shyamalan returns to multiplexes with his newest thriller. Trap introduces us to Cooper (Josh Hartnett), a dad from suburban Philadelphia taking his teen daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to see her favorite pop star Lady Raven…
Read More »Sing Sing Takes A Probing Look at the Capacity for Change
Sing Sing is a film that takes place in the New York State Penitentiary of the same name. Divine G (Colman Domingo) is incarcerated and finds purpose for himself by helping to organize and write for a prison…
Read More »Deadpool & Wolverine: Let Them Eat Cake
******This review contains minor scene descriptions, but no major spoilers****** After years of speculation on how the Deadpool franchise would fit into Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe following the studios acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the day has finally…
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Conclave Is an Engrossing Political Thriller That Also Deftly Explores Religion (Middleburg Film Festival)
Coming off of the success of 2022’s All Quiet on the Western Front, director Edward Berger returns to cinema with the adaptation of a 2016 novel. Conclave finds us alongside Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) following the sudden…
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