When the alternate, dystopian universe we are all currently residing in is nothing more than a horrid dumpster fire with daily alerts that stress is taking years off of our lives, sometimes all we really want to do is curl…
Movie Review: Justice League Dark
If the latest capers in Hollywood are any indication, fans of DC Comics may be loyal to a fault. However, the home-release animated films still provide a light at the end of the tunnel, and Justice League Dark is no…
Sundance 2017 Review: Person to Person
To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here. It’s rather hard to be cavalier about someone else’s problems when they take them so seriously and so personally. Oh wait, no it isn’t. Especially when they’re the…
Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Dave Made a Maze
Bill Watterson’s Dave Made a Maze is a film that leaves you grasping for points of comparison. How to describe it? A Murakami Merrie Melody? A Jim Henson film written by Philip K. Dick? Jorge Luis Borges presents Pee-wee’s Playhouse?…
Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Hotel Coolgardie
To read more coverage of Slamdance 2017, go here. Pete Gleeson’s Hotel Coolgardie is a frequently nightmarish, occasionally heartbreaking documentary about Lina and Steph, two Finnish backpackers stranded in Australia who sign on as the resident barmaids in Coolgardie—a tiny…
Movie Review: xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
We need to talk about Vin Diesel’s career, and how no one knows where it’s going to go next. America’s balding bulk of muscle was nearly over by 2009 after the likes of Find Me Guilty and Babylon A.D. failed…
Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Withdrawn
To read more coverage of Slamdance 2017, go here. Never before have I seen a film that more closely captures the mindset, emotions, and speech patterns of millennials than Adrian Murray’s Withdrawn. Tall praise, but not undeserved. Working from a…