Movie Reviews

The Match runs, fittingly, for ninety minutes, and the film’s tagline insists that an hour and a half can change everything forever. This new international...

Dean Kapsalis’ first feature film The Swerve is stunning, believable, and heartbreaking. In the half-hour since I finished watching it, my head has been spinning,...

I love a good horror anthology film, and now I’ve found a new one: Dark Stories was compiled from a French TV series, with one...

Blinders is about Andy (Vincent Van Horn), a likeable guy who moves to Los Angeles looking for a fresh start. He finds a decent apartment,...

Av: The Hunt was like many films I’ve seen before, and it was also unique: excellent. It is about Ayse (Billur Melis Koç), a young...

This review of Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe is spoiler-free. For 222 episodes, brothers Phineas and Ferb enjoyed summer. Every day...

Great, I thought: after reviewing a few artsy or heavy films lately, I get the chance to see some airhead teens in bikinis being killed...

Hall must surely be the bleakest and most creepily effective film of this year’s FrightFest so far. I’m afraid I was quite nauseous by the...

Justin McConnell is a modest, often self-deprecating, indie filmmaker from Canada. He has experience, but has spells of despair about how to progress in his...

They’re Outside is about Sarah (Chrissy Randall), who hasn’t been outside for several years; and about the YouTube pop psychologist Max Spencer (Tom Wheatley) who...

It’s impossible to watch Hulu’s new “original” comedy The Binge and not think of other, very similar films, most especially Superbad and Booksmart. Genre films...

I was really looking forward to Blind, when I saw it listed for this year’s Virtual FrightFest: the trailer was dramatic, and the description read...

Playhouse is a film about a cursed castle in the Scottish Highlands: brilliant! Scotland is full of both castles and ghost stories, but I don’t...

Triggered is going to be one of those rare films which don’t require many words to tell you I liked it a great deal. It...

As the Coronavirus creates massive social upheaval around the world, one chance of lesser note is that 2020 has become possibly the first summer in...

Amber Appleton is just a normal high school student in your typical Netflix high school movie. She’s bright and optimistic, has ambitions, a diverse group...

I Am Lisa is a film about small-town bullies and a victim who pushes back… after being bitten by a wolf. Lisa (Kristen Vaganos) is...

How would you feel if you were carjacked late at night, and the (good looking) guy who gets in insists he’s being chased by a...