Apple TV+ adds to an already stellar lineup (including The Afterparty, Servant, Black Bird, and Ted Lasso) with their new crime/mystery/thriller The Crowded Room. Starring an ensemble cast of rising talent, The Crowded Room is unique in the way it approaches how we view mental illness and trauma. Tom Holland delivers an acting masterclass that … Continue reading TV Review: The Crowded Room
Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
★★★★★ Serving as the definitive Spider-Man cinematic experience, Across the Spider-Verse expands the scope of the mythology like never before, forming a deeply emotional visual extravaganza. This trio of directors (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson) have crafted a movie that manages to transcend its complex inspirations. While the previous animated iteration, Into … Continue reading Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Cannes 2023 Wrap-Up
Due to limited remote access on some of this year's most exclusive titles, the 2023 Cannes Film Festival has all but eluded us. Though I did not personally review any selections this year, I would like to highlight the work of Allison and our other writers as they devoted themselves to covering a small bundle … Continue reading Cannes 2023 Wrap-Up
Film Review: Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
★★★★ Further proving that he is a hall of famer genre actor, Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story highlights the entire filmography of a cinema legend. Interviews are featured with everyone from indie directors Adam Green and Tim Sullivan to Englund’s coworkers and friends. There is truly nothing like getting to see someone … Continue reading Film Review: Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Film Review: The Boogeyman
★★★★ Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman,” from his best-selling novel of short stories Night Shift, remains one of the simplest and creepiest he ever wrote. In just twelve brief pages, a disheveled father spills his guts to a therapist regarding the mysterious murder of his three children. With an entire story set solely at a therapist’s … Continue reading Film Review: The Boogeyman
Cannes 2023: All to Play For
★★★★ (Written by Intern, Wyatt Frantz) Family is almost never as simple as raising children until they go to college. Thinly veiled underneath this idealistic storyline is the turmoil and dysfunction that some fight against on a daily basis. For a film like All to Play For (originally titled, Rien à Perdre) that highlights the … Continue reading Cannes 2023: All to Play For
TV Review: Manifest – Season 4, Part 2
After four suspenseful, well-written seasons, Manifest season 4 part 2 drops with an emotional final batch of episodes that present a fond farewell to these characters. A show that originally was hatched back on NBC before making a Netflix detour, Manifest remains one of the few to ever be saved from the axe—thank whatever divine … Continue reading TV Review: Manifest – Season 4, Part 2
Theater Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Operatic and bizarre, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is already a bonafide classic on the stage and on film. With its legendary status firmly established, Broadway’s 2023 revival still managed a whopping eight Tony nominations. How would any show measure up to these lofty expectations, or manage to pull off the epic … Continue reading Theater Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Film Review: The Little Mermaid
★★★ Love them or hate them, the live action Disney remake is here to stay. The newest, 2023’s reimagining of The Little Mermaid, seems to be one of the most divisive yet, judging by early online reactions. For me, the film was a long time coming—as a child, I would rewatch the 1989 original on … Continue reading Film Review: The Little Mermaid
Cannes 2023: Omen
★★★ (Written by Intern, Wyatt Frantz) People around the world hold many different belief systems and values to heart, which sometimes clash into conflict or even chaos, when we need each other the most. This makes it refreshing to see a film that seeks to transcend culture and language. Omen is bold enough to do … Continue reading Cannes 2023: Omen