May 6, 2022
Children of Sin (Movie Review)
Imagine living in a world where an omnipresent dread clouds your every step. You cannot ever feel comfortable and you cannot feel like a day will come where you could just breathe easy being yourself...
Author: Adam D. Johnson
May 6, 2022
Escape the Field (Movie Review)
Cliché alert: there is no time like the present. It can feel like we are out there running in circles, trying to figure out answers to questions we do not even know. Maybe, perhaps, we could say dropped into a field, with no idea what...
April 14, 2022
Godforsaken (Movie Review)
Mess with the unknown at your own peril, time-worn wisdom goes. Nowadays people seem willing to risk it as our own familiar world grows more opaque. Lurking right where we would least suspect, Writer/Director Ali Akbar Akbar Kamal takes us for a ride straight into...
March 31, 2022
Your Flesh Your Curse (Movie Review)
Part of the fear defining purgatory is not knowing. What comes next? Heaven… or hell? You can’t know until your trial is over. Kasper Juhl’s Your Flesh Your Curse is such a trial. Released on DVD by Bayview Entertainment on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, Juhl's...
March 26, 2022
In Search of Tomorrow (Documentary Review)
Glancing out at the current cultural landscape, it’s clear nothing quite grabs attention like nostalgia. And as both Generations X and Y get older, nothing will continue to inspire nostalgia more powerfully than the 1980s. David A. Weiner’s new documentary film In Search of Tomorrow...
December 10, 2018
The House That Jack Built (Movie Review)
Danish Filmmaker Lars Von Trier (Antichrist 2009, Nymphomaniac 2013) loves to stir up controversy, doesn’t he? Doing just that, he is openly inviting it with his latest film, The House That Jack Built, set for release in theaters and on VOD Friday, December 14, 2018 through...
August 13, 2018
Show Yourself (Movie Review)
The various circumstances where life challenges people are often couched in metaphorical terms like “fights” or “battles." This implies the potential for a decisive “victory” (or even “defeat”) at some nebulous future moment. Grief is one such emotion encouraging these descriptions. Show Yourself, a sophomore feature...
July 17, 2018
Euthanizer (Movie Review)
Scientists call it the “anthropocene,” our current age where human beings possess a dominant influence on climate and the environment. It flows with a biblical idea that humans are separate from the planet's other animals. Showing no mercy, the award winning Finnish Thriller Euthanizer is a dark...
July 5, 2018
Who’s Watching Oliver (Movie Review)
Evil mothers are a staple of Horror movies, maybe movies in general. They are either killing people themselves, like in 1994’s Serial Mom, being a spaceship and refusing to not blow up and kill Sigourney Weaver, in 1979’s Alien, or just plain killing people through their...
July 5, 2018
The Night of the Virgin (Movie Review)
“New Year, new me,” right? This cliché is just as guaranteed to drop from a lame friend as the ball in Times Square, and in The Night of the Virgin (aka La noche del virgen), a first-time feature by Director Roberto San Sebastián, change certainly comes for our...
