Zootopia 2 by Hope Madden It’s been a decade since Disney rewrote their longstanding history of rocking no boats when the delightfully fearless Zootopia asked its audience to confront our own biases a...

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery by George Wolf We may be early in awards season, but the slam dunk winner for Best Use of a Church Organ in an Ensemble Whodunnit has arrived. Wake Up Dead Man: ...

The Thing with Feathers by Hope Madden Novelist Max Porter puts readers into headspaces we might just as well not want to visit, but he creates a territory that’s slyly hopeful. In Shy, beautifully ad...

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Altered by Daniel Baldwin Socio-political allegory and science fiction storytelling go together like peanut butter and chocolate. One can enjoy their tastes separately, but when combined in the right ...

Rental Family by George Wolf For the first few minutes of Rental Family, you’re not quite sure what it’s trying to be. Phillip, an American actor, is living and working in Japan, wearing funny suits i...

Peter Hujar’s Day by Hope Madden Linda Rosenkranz blurred lines between fiction and nonfiction, turning conversation into a microcosm of Chelsea Hotel-orbiting 1970s society. Peter Hujar—one artist in that orbit—provided photographic evidence of the same. Writer/director Ira Sachs attempts to trap that same lightning on screen with Peter Hujar’s Day. Sachs adapts a transcript, part … Continue reading Historical Portrait →

Jay Kelly by George Wolf Oh, jeez, here we go. Just in time for Awards Season, it’s another group of Hollywood elites making a big Netflix movie about how great movies are, and how great the people ma...

The idea of being kidnapped is one of those primal fears, one of the first worries we have as children. No doubt those fears have inspired many of these horror movies, and our own connection to those ...

Wicked: For Good by Hope Madden and George Wolf The lights are flickering, intermission is over, and Wicked: For Good brings us all back to that good problem Glinda and Elphaba have always had. How do...

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The Running Man by George Wolf The mantra of this year’s The Running Man? “When the stakes goes up, the shit goes down!” And since 1987, which way have the original film’s stakes of weaponized disinfo...

Keeper by Hope Madden Osgood Perkins is the gift that keeps on giving. In just 16 months he’s turned out three wildly different gems and a fourth is filming now. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves b...

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t by Hope Madden I remember so clearly, back in 2016 when Now You See Me 2 came out, thinking—hold the phone, Now You See Me made enough money to merit a sequel? Imagine my...

The Carpenter’s Son by George Wolf There are plenty of great reasons to want Nicolas Cage in your movie. Downplaying it alongside a young Jesus probably isn’t one of them. But writer/director Lotfy Na...

In Your Dreams by Hope Madden The delightfully juvenile humor that propels much of the new Dreamworks animated film In Your Dreams entertains. It also amplifies the tension between tween big sister St...

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The athlete turned actor/writer/director/producer follows up last year’s holiday romance A Heart for Christmas with another holiday film due to hit streamers November 14.

Die My Love by Hope Madden Earlier this year, filmmaker Michael Shanks and real-life marrieds Alison Brie and Dave Franco examined man’s fear of losing his identity to couplehood in the weirdly romant...

Predator: Badlands by Hope Madden Whenever anybody ranks the Predator films—or the Alien films, for that matter—most episodes hold up moderately to well, except for those crossovers. Well, it appears ...

Lost & Found in Cleveland by Hope Madden Tennessee Williams once said, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everything else is Cleveland.” The indie charmer Lost &...