Movies

The essential problem with Mikael Håfström’s Outside the Wire, which is streaming on Netflix from today, is that it’s a typical action-packed thriller that also...

This review of Hulu film The Ultimate Playlist of Noise contains no spoiler. The drama will be released on the streaming service on January 15,...

Some themes are universal, and breakups are one of them. Everyone knows what it’s like. There you are, imagining spending the rest of your life...

Four women work in the studious office of a non-governmental organization that investigates genocide and attempts to understand the people involved. Unlike many office-based dramas,...

There are many ways to skin a cat and a seemingly infinite number of ways to make a Batman movie, but that isn’t to say...

Bright Hill Road is the story of Marcy, going through an emotional breakdown either induced or accelerated by alcohol and trauma. The film opens with...

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy debuted on Netflix on January 11, 2021. With all the talk of pandemics these days, it’s easy to forget about...

Hunted surprised me. I was led to expect a “modern and radical take on the Little Red Riding Hood fable” and an “exhilarating, transcendent, and...

If you have followed the basketball world in the 21st century, you know Tony Parker’s name. You know he’s a great player that became a...

This review of Netflix film Stuck Apart contains no spoilers. The drama was released on the streaming service on January 8, 2021. Coming on the...

Netflix has become a charity by subsidizing bad films for studios. They are responsible for the distribution rights in the United States of the animated...

One word film titles can be tricky: the word really needs to sum up either the subject or the mood of the film. I expected...

There is something plaintively real and uncinematic about the opening scene of Herself, the new Amazon Prime Video film. A thirty-something mother is dancing around...

After my most recent reviews of thought-provoking films, I had planned to get back to some escapist horror. Despite that, I pressed play on Happy...

In 2013, Daniel Rye Ottosen (called Daniel Rye in the film) was just starting out as an assistant to a journalistic photographer, having had his...

Sometimes, I look forward to a film for months, and when I watch it, find myself disappointed. Sometimes, I don’t get around to watching something...

Well, it certainly didn’t take long for Netflix to give its many detractors some ammunition this year. On just the second day of a new...

There’s something to be said for bonkers genre movies that seem to make a conscious effort to be nuttier than a squirrel’s fart, and that’s...