Captain America: Brave New World, the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a conflicting watch because depending on how you view the film, you might love it or hate it. You will enjoy the film if you watch it from the view of a basic MCU sequel. But the film has an overly political message that if you look into it deeper than just surface-level it bogs down the viewing experience. Since…
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Richard Pryor’s autobiographical dramedy Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling was recently added to the Criterion Collection. One of the greatest comedians of all time, Richard Pryor gets raw and real in this brutally funny and lacerating self-portrait. Following the notorious incident in which he caught on fire while high on cocaine, nearly losing his life, Pryor exorcised his inner demons by writing, producing, directing, and starring in this dizzying hall-of-mirrors biopic and backstage…
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Sammo Hung’s 1987 action film Eastern Condors was recently added to the Criterion Collection. Legendary actor-director Sammo Hung delivers a bazooka blast of pure adrenaline in this exemplar of Hong Kong action cinema at its most entertaining. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood war films like The Dirty Dozen, Eastern Condors follows a ragtag band of Asian American prisoners dropped into Vietnam on a secret suicide mission to prevent a cache of weapons from falling into the hands of the Viet Cong, who are more…
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I had never heard of Jeff Buckley until I saw that there was a documentary about him at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, looks at a young musical artist who quickly rose to fame only for it to come to a crashing halt after a tragic accident. Normally I wouldn’t go into a documentary like this completely blind, but I am glad I took a chance on…
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Albert Birney returns to the Sundance Film Festival following his 2021 film Strawberry Mansion with OBEX, a lo-fi, science fiction film. Set in 1987, OBEX follows Conor (Birney), a recluse who only lives with his dog Sandy. Conor spends his days in front of a screen. He has a trio of TVs in his living room, a TV and computer monitor in his bedroom, and he even watches TV while in the bathtub. To…
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Dave Franco and Alison Brie star in Michael Shanks’s deliriously fun horror film Together, one of the best movies I have seen at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Franco and Brie play Tim and Millie, a couple who have recently moved from out of the big city into a house surrounded by endless woods. Tim and Millie’s relationship is on the rocks. Millie’s job as a teacher has taken them out of the city….
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I remember seeing Dylan O’Brien for the first time in the 2013 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson-led comedy The Internship. Shortly after this film, O’Brien’s career blew up as he was the star of the TV show Teen Wolf and would be the lead in the film adaptations of The Maze Runner. With his growing popularity, choices in big-named projects, and classic good looks, O’Brien was on his way to becoming a full-blown movie…
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Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa is an insightful and powerful drama about modern queerness, family, and parenting. Olivia Colman stars as Hannah, a filmmaker working on her next film project, which centers around her relationship with her father, which she thinks is drama-free. She makes a trip to Amsterdam with her husband (Daniel Henshaw) and non-binary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her gay father (John Lithgow), or Jimpa as Frances calls him. When Frances tells…
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Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is an uproarious horror comedy. The film follows a grave digger (Glowicki) who is desperate to find a lover but can’t because of how she smells. Following a funeral, she meets the man of her dreams who loves how she looks and smells, only for him to perish in a tragic accident. In a state of desperation and sadness, she goes to extreme lengths to try and bring him back….
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Bubble & Squeak follows Declan (Himesh Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg), a recently married couple who are on their honeymoon in a country that has banned cabbage. They get stopped by customs where a customs agent (Steven Yeun) informs them that they got word an American couple was trying to smuggle in cabbage to their country. Declan has no idea what the customs agent is talking about and Delores’ pants are full of heads…
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