Vicenta B is the reason why I love film festivals. The film isn’t a modern masterpiece or anything, but it is a film that I am glad I was able to see. It took me to a world I knew nothing about, embedding itself in the culture and giving us interesting characters that are well-written. It also comes from a filmmaker who is on the rise with a bright future. This is why film festivals…
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John Hyams’s Sick is interesting because it uses the COVID-19 pandemic as a major part of the plot. There have been movies that have mentioned COVID or have featured scenes where characters are wearing masks, but Sick makes COVID a key element of the plot. Not only is it the framing device of the film, but it plays a key part in the events that take place throughout the movie and it does so…
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It’s the Halloween season, and with that comes Halloween movies. Though many love to watch horror movies during this time of year, there are plenty of subgenres of horror to choose from. Looking for a haunted house movie? A monster movie? Maybe something with a vampire or zombie? That’s what this list is here to help with. I have listed several horror subgenres as well as added categories like classics and kid-friendly films and listed…
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The 2022 Chicago International Film Festival kicks off this week and it is a film festival that I truly love. This was the first festival that I ever attended back in 2008 and it is one I have attended every year since. It is a truly great film festival that does not get the love and attention of some higher-profile festivals but deserves to be mentioned as one of the best film festivals in North…
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It seems a virgin at Disney lit the Black Flame Candle because the Sanderson sisters are back! Whiney, Sarah, and Mary have returned to lure children and stay young forever in Hocus Pocus 2, an entertaining and worthy sequel to the 1993 childhood classic. It’s been 29 years since Max, Danny, and Allison lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the trio of 17th-century witches, and stopped them from causing mayhem throughout the town…
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August has the reputation of being a slow month for theatrical movies. Occasionally you’ll get a Guardians of the Galaxy or an awards player like The Help or Straight Outta Compton, but August usually acts as a cinematic transition month, where the summer movies begin to fade and the fall movies begin to ramp up for festivals and an awards push. With August being a slower month, it is very easy to lose interest…
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Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies starts off like it will be a movie about a party amongst friends during a hurricane. The party is being hosted by David (Pete Davidson) at his parent’s huge mansion. Attending the party is David’s girlfriend Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), Jordan (Myha’la Herrold), Alice (Rachel Sennott), Greg (Lee Pace), a guy Alice has only known for a few weeks through Tinder who David is intimidated by, Sophie (Amandla Stenberg),…
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I wouldn’t usually rank the movies of a production company. Thinking about ranking the movies from the likes of Paramount or Universal or Disney just seems like a daunting task because of how long they have been around and how many movies they have in their catalog. But the production studio A24 has been around for only a decade and within that decade, they have established themselves as one of the most singular and best…
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David Leitch’s Bullet Train is a movie with a lot of characters. To start, there’s Ladybug (Brad Pitt), an assassin who, despite his nickname, is having a terrible streak of luck that only seems to be getting worse for him. There’s Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry), gun-for-hire brothers who will do any dirty job that they are asked to do. Then there is Prince (Joey King), a seemingly nice and innocent-looking…
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Jordan Peele’s Nope is the director’s biggest film to date and arguably his most impressive, which is a lot to say seeing as his debut film, the Oscar-winning Get Out, has become a cultural touchstone, and his follow-up, Us, features one of the great performances of the last ten years from Lupita Nyong’o. Where Get Out and Us felt smaller in terms of their scale but huge with their themes, Nope is a perfect…
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