Tesla Movie Review: Despite Electric Performances and Stylized Moments, This Biopic Short Circuits

To make a movie about Nikola Tesla rightfully deserves an ounce of ingenuity and can-do spirit. The man himself was enigmatic, deliriously ambitious, and neurotically hard-working, constantly fighting against low budgets and general indifference from investors. Finally, here’s a movie…

Them That Follow Movie Review: Faith based film aims to spark conversation

Entrenched in a rural Pentecostal community of Appalachian snake handlers who risk their lives in order to test their devotion to God (led by a reliably skeezy Walton Goggins), a pastor’s daughter (Alice Engler of Ginger & Rosa and Beautiful…

‘Light from Light’ Review: Marin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan Search For Supernatural Meaning | Sundance 2019

We’re all either believers or skeptics when it comes to the paranormal, but that doesn’t mean we know which of the two we really are. This is the bottom line of Light from Light, an “anti-horror” drama from director Paul Harrill…

This is Pop? Podcast Episode 13: 2018 Grammy Predictions

  The nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were announced on Nov. 28 and included nods for several of the biggest acts of 2017, from Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars to Kesha and The National. Like many music and…

Cast and Crew Interviews From the Film ‘Chuck’

Rocky. Rocky II. Rocky III. Rocky IV….I could keep going and somehow we’ll end with Creed, but that doesn’t matter. What does, however, is who Rocky was inspired after, and what that man has to lay claim to fame.  Chuck Wepner is his name. He’s the man…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Experimenter’

Anyone who has taken introductory psychology courses has heard of Stanley Milgram, and already accepts his theory on obedience and authority. The film serves as a retrospective on our society and our inability to accept that unquestionable belief in authority…

2015 Tribeca Film Festival: Misery Loves Comedy Review

In his directorial debut, Kevin Pollak signs on an impressive roster of actors, comedians, stand-ups, writers, and more, all to come together and answer one of the most dumbfounding questions known comedy lovers everywhere: do you truly have to be…