LAMB dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson, starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson María and Ingvar are sheep farmers in Iceland, stuck in both a rut and a one-sided loveless marriage as each day of tending to the sheep rolls into the next. Upon the birth...
BLUF: Venom 2 is a movie that contains characters and traces of plot threads that were found in the first movie. If this stunningly marginal narrative technique sounds exciting, you just might like this movie. The first Venom was a pleasant surprise, in that it exceeded...
AMERICAN NIGHT dir. Alessio Della Valle, starring Emile Hirsch, Jonathan Rhys Meyes, and Paz Vega American Night, a noir thriller set in New York City's shifty art world, tells the story of an art critic, the ruthless head of a crime organization, and the fight for money,...
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS dir. Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Simu Liu, Tony Leung, Awkwafina, Fala Chen, and Michelle Yeoh In 2018, the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened its doors to telling stories centered on people of color, providing the audiences with the rich, lush...
WIFE OF A SPY dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa starring Yū Aoi and Issey Takahashi Wife of a Spy, a historical drama set in Japan during the early days of World War II, centers on Yū Aoi as Satoko Fukuhara, the wife of a businessman (Takahashi) whom she slowly...
KATE dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, and Woody Harrelson Kate, the latest action film from Netflix, stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an assassin who goes on a manhunt through the streets of Tokyo after being poisoned and left with only 24 hours to...
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS dir. Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Simu Liu, Tony Leung, Awkwafina, Fala Chen, and Michelle Yeoh In 2018, the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened its doors to telling stories centered on people of color, providing the audiences with the rich, lush...
THE NIGHT HOUSE dir. David Bruckner, starring Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, and Vondie Curtis-Hall One of the main touchstones of The Night House is the power of secrets. It's Owen's (Jonikeit) secrets that gradually eat away at him until he's walled himself off from Beth...
BECKETT dir. Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Kripes, and Alicia Vikander Beckett, an action thriller about a man on the run in a foreign country, is yet another entry in a long list of movies where normal, everyday people are suddenly thrown...
THE SUICIDE SQUAD dir. James Gunn, starring Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, et al For the second time this year, Warner Brothers has a DCEU property that will unfortunately draw comparisons to an unfavorable film that was its predecessor. Such was the case with...
