Lulu Wang’s new film, The Farewell, is an excellent family oriented dramedy with superb direction, acting, and overall storytelling.
Category: Features
In Theaters Review: Ready or Not
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Ready or Not is a fun and effective horror film in the vein of films like Clue and The Evil Dead.
In Theaters Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a great film adaptation of the popular children’s books from the 80’s and 90’s with its lively tone, likable characters, and eerie visuals.
In Theaters Review: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, is an aesthetically beautiful recreation of late 1960’s Hollywood but suffers dearly from the plodding second act of its bloated runtime.
Artist Close-Up: Filmmaker Zach Lorkiewicz
In the second installment of Artist Close-Up, we interview Zach Lorkiewicz, the director and creator of Los Angeles artist collective, Count the Clock!
In Theaters Review: The Lion King
Disney stumbles once again with a lifeless recreation of one of their most popular animated films, The Lion King, that banks on the audience’s nostalgia for the 1994 animated film.
Stranger Things Season 3 Wrap-Up
Stranger Things Season 3 is a much more memorable follow-up to Season 2 with more of the drama, tenderness, and fun that made the first season such a phenomenon.
In Theaters Review: Crawl
Alexandre Aja’s new film, Crawl, fails to deliver entertainment with its ridiculous premise and is even dumber than the trailers made it look.
Artist Close-Up: Filmmaker Michael Wong
In this first edition of Artist Close-Up, we interview Malaysian filmmaker Michael Wong about his career and his new micro-short film, The Tattooist!
In Theaters Review: Midsommar
Ari Aster’s Midsommar, the spiritual followup to last year’s Hereditary, has much of the same intrigue but is a little too self-indulgent and lacking in story.