Written by Taylor Baker 60/100 The Last Thing Mary Saw is a naturalistic Victorian period piece detailing the events of our titular character Mary’s seeming descent, framed to the viewer through an interrogation sequence that begins at the outset of … Continue reading.
Tag: Feature Film
A Quiet Place Part II
Written by Nick McCann 96/100 One of my biggest regrets in movie-going was not seeing A Quiet Place in theaters when it was new. I was highly impressed when I did finally watch it and subsequently crushed that I didn't … Continue reading.
Fantasia & New York Asian Film Festival Review: Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It
Written by Patrick Hao 55/100 One of the shames of watching a movie like Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It and other festival movies at VOD screenings is the palpable audience reaction to a movie that unfurls itself to the audience. … Continue reading.
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Written by Alexander Reams 27/100 When I think back to my childhood there are certain events I remember, and yes most of them revolve around films. I remember seeing G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with my father and seeing … Continue reading.
Fantasia Film Festival 2021 Review: The Night House
Written by Taylor Baker 78/100 David Bruckner who rose to some prominence through his work on the anthology short collections V/H/S and cult darling Southbound returns with his sophomore feature follow up to 2017's The Ritual with The Night House. … Continue reading.
Fantasia & New York Asian Film Festival Review: Junk Head
Written by Patrick Hao 64/100 If filmmaking is a labor of love, then animation is the 12 Labors of Hercules. It’s a long, lugubrious, and isolating process. For director Takahide Hori, the stop motion animated film Junk Head is one … Continue reading.
New York Asian Film Festival Review: Barbarian Invasion
Written by Taylor Baker 75/100 "Are we going to make a Hong Sang-soo film?" Moon played by Chui Mai Tan asks Pete Teo's Roger Woo. The intended director and writer of her next film, and seemingly her long time collaborator, … Continue reading.
Habit
Written by Alexander Reams 15/100 There was a time long ago, when seeing Bella Thorne top-billed on a movie poster meant something good. If that film was produced, financed, and distributed by Disney, and it appeared on Disney Channel on … Continue reading.
The Lady Eve
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 Sturges slows down the dialogue and ups the sensuality for a funny story of romance, revenge, and faked identity. Aboard an ocean liner on his voyage home from the Amazon, wealthy and guileless Charles Pike … Continue reading.
Don’t Breathe 2
Written by Alexander Reams 20/100 Sequels are rarely warranted within the horror genre. The deciding factor almost always seems to be greed. Money after all is the ultimate motivator of studios. This is clearly the case in the half-baked, boring, … Continue reading.
