Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is one of those great movies where the weight of the world slowly collapses on a character, and we watch as they do everything in their power to keep it all up and do everything right, but struggle not to be crushed. These types of movies work best when they have a strong performance at their center, and great writing with a lot of emotion and thought-provoking ideas,…
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Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague has entered the Criterion Collection. It’s 1959, and a young Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) is the only one among his film-critic peers at Cahiers du cinéma not to have made a feature film. Determined to put his revolutionary cinematic ideas into practice, he brings his small crew and two stars—an eager unknown named Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) and wary Hollywood expat Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch)—onto the streets of Paris to shoot…
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My relationship to Resident Evil is purely cinematic. I am not a player of the iconic video game series that has been scaring its players since 1996, and all I know of the franchise is everything that has been in the Milla Jovovich-led action-horror films that kicked off in 2002. All I really remember from those films, besides Jovovich kicking ass, is that there is a chemical outbreak in the fictional city of Raccoon…
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Don’t let the Cannes Film Festival logo fool you into thinking what kind of film Na Hong-jin’s Hope is. This is closer to an American action spectacle than a Palme d’Or nominee. Hope is a non-stop, action-packed blockbuster about monsters terrorizing a small town and the underqualified police and townspeople trying to stop it. Sounds like something right out of a Michael Bay movie. In the remote town of Hope Harbor, strange happenings begin;…
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The fact that Coyote vs Acme exists and that I am reviewing the film is a cinematic miracle. Originally slated to be released in July of 2023, Warner Bros, the original studio releasing the film, decided to shelve the completed film entirely for a tax write-off. Seemingly gone from existence, Ketchup Entertainment bought the distribution rights in March of 2025 and has now officially released the film in theaters. I don’t normally go into…
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Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars doesn’t feel like a complete movie. Yes, it has actors, production value, and visual effects, and there was a script for the film, but there is no connective story or depth. It just felt like a lot of scenes placed together in an order that is digestible for an audience. It deals with a lot of heavy subjects and has characters who could have been interesting, but it’s like…
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Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning documentary Harlan County, USA has gotten a 4K upgrade from the Criterion Collection. Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. With a haunting soundtrack—featuring legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, David Morris, Sarah Ogan Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record…
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Ice Cream Man was self-financed by the film’s director, Eli Roth. Following his last film, Borderlands, a certified flop in every regard, Roth wanted to do away with the studio system and executive oversight and make a film without anyone giving him any notes. He also chose to release Ice Cream Man unrated, giving himself free rein over the blood, gore, and chaos of his newest splatter-horror film. While Roth isn’t the first…
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The FAN EXPO Chicago is the ultimate go-to event for sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming in Chicago. Formerly known as Wizard World Chicago, this three-day event is a haven for fans of pop culture, comics, filmmaking, and art. This year’s Chicago FAN EXPO takes place from Friday, August 14th, through Sunday, August 16th, at the Donald E. Stephenson Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Here are some of the exciting things taking place at the 2026…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the 38th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a spectacular movie and one of the best post-Avengers: Endgame MCU movies. It perfectly balances spectacle and character, resulting in a film that is exciting and emotional. It is the best Tom Holland-led Spider-Man movie, and the best live-action Spider-Man movie since the Sam Raimi films of the 2000s. Spider-Man: Brand New Day picks up after the events of Spider-Man:…
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