Sing Sing Review
Traspecos director Greg Kweadar’s new film Sing Sing asks an important question to its audience: can atonement be gained through art? Based on the real-life experiences of prison author John “Divine G” Whitfield the film deals with the Theatre troupe he helped establish in New…
Hundreds of Beavers Review – Drunken Salesman Meets Beavers
When I was coming out of the theater, I overheard another patron say, “It’s pure brain rot. And I love it.” And honestly, I’d say that’s a pretty appropriate description of Hundreds of Beavers. The movie Hundreds of Beavers follows a drunken apple cider salesman…
Longlegs – Review
I’ve stated recently that there is always going to be a market for horror in film. It’s a sadistic pastime that a lot of people enjoy and a state of mind most people don’t experience in their day to day: simulated terror. Most of us…
Sting – Movie Review
The landscape of American horror is in a weird state these days. The most inflated of the popular genres consistently since its inception, its marketplace is now flooded by straight to stream chancers hoping for a quick buck off the basis of a its AI…
Back to Black – Movie Review
Music biopics are a fickle business in the film world. Our parasocial relationship with celebrities has led us to dramatize even the minutest moments of someone’s life for the sake of a profit margin. It’s a duel between truth or fiction, real and fake, that…
Jeanne Du Barry – Movie Review
During the Nouvelle Vague the French filmmakers of Cahier Du Cinema rebelled against what they were seeing from their indigenous cinema. Costume dramas directed by journeymen directors with no real applicable identity to their work were the standard. Since the French New Wave France has…
Immaculate Review
Since her breakout role in HBO’s Euphoria Sydney Sweeney has been climbing the Hollywood social ladder in recent years. She’s been quite a bankable actress for the Hollywood filler releases in the off months. Anyone but You (2023) was critically panned but killed at the…
TWIG Movie Review
The shining star of this year’s DIFF opening gala, Marian Quinns TWIG has been touted to be one of the must-see Irish films of the 2024. Following a 17-year hiatus from 2007’s A32, TWIG is Quinns modern retelling of the Greek tragedy of Antigone set…
