★★★ Feel-bad festival dramas are about as commonplace as finding a penny in the city. If you look hard enough, there will always be one shining in wait. Dragonfly easily fits that bill—writer/director Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage, The Children) shifts his genre sensibilities to elderly care in this chilling, overtly bleak character study. By … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: Dragonfly
Film Review: Dangerous Animals
★★★★★ At long last, after years of chum, we finally get a great shark movie for the ages. Director Sean Byrne, whose previous two films The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy were horror with bite, carries over that trademark ferocity to the ocean. In Dangerous Animals, a demented serial killer snatches people who will … Continue reading Film Review: Dangerous Animals
Film Review: Barron’s Cove
★★★★ Can there be a worse pain than a parent losing their child? Writer/director Evan Ari Kelman certainly does not think so, coaxing a staggeringly raw performance from underrated actor Garrett Hedlund as the grieving father. Here, the searing pain goes so deep that nothing else matters but getting justice. Emotionally devastating and morally complex, … Continue reading Film Review: Barron’s Cove
Film Review: Fear Street: Prom Queen
★★★★ Netflix's Fear Street trilogy represents the golden standard of throwback slasher movies, perfectly emulating different eras of excellence. For their next foray into R.L. Stine's universe, writer/director Matt Palmer steps in for an inspired adaptation of Stine's novel, The Prom Queen. A masked maniac targets the candidates for Shadyside's 1988 senior prom, contentedly chopping … Continue reading Film Review: Fear Street: Prom Queen
Film Review: Sew Torn
★★★★ (Written by Intern, Alecia Wilk) Making an almost overwhelming aesthetic impression, the look and feel of Sew Torn is Tumblr’s take on retro. With delicate hands clad in pastel yellow fingerless gloves, a mousy-haired and wide-eyed main character drives her buggy across cobblestone to her eccentric job as a mobile seamstress. Things could not … Continue reading Film Review: Sew Torn
Film Review: Unit 234
★★ Judging from the pedigree of all involved, Unit 234 should be an instant thriller-movie home run. Leading actress Isabelle Fuhrman has become a veritable scream queen between her exciting roles as Esther in the Orphan franchise, Cell, The Last Thing Mary Saw, and Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. Though not a horror flick, I … Continue reading Film Review: Unit 234
Film Review: Fight or Flight
★★★★ Josh Hartnett enters his John Wick actioner era in explosively entertaining and hilariously off-kilter pulp flick, Fight or Flight. For decades, Hartnett has been putting up impressive character work since his acting boom in the late 90s/2000s. Though he took some time off in between projects, it truly feels like we are experiencing a … Continue reading Film Review: Fight or Flight
Film Review: The Surfer
★★ A Nicolas Cage movie at this point in his career can go wildly in any direction. The unpredictable nature of the roles he chooses still manages to cement Cage as one of the few must-see performers of our time. In Aussie-driven The Surfer, Cage comes in somewhere around a 5.5 or 6 out of … Continue reading Film Review: The Surfer
Film Review: Neighborhood Watch
★★★ 2025 continues to be the year of Jack Quaid. After two leading roles in horror/sci-fi Companion and high octane action/comedy Novocaine, Quaid transitions over to crime/thriller territory playing opposite The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Neighborhood Watch. This unlikely pairing works well, charging what is, for all intents and purposes, a rather basic … Continue reading Film Review: Neighborhood Watch
TV Review: You – Season 5
Goodbye, you. After seven seasons and serial killer hopping from New York to Los Angeles to Paris and back to the streets of NYC once more, Joe Goldberg’s whirlwind story of obsession finally comes to a satisfying close. Chasing a neverending fairytale woman, Joe may have his biggest safety blanket yet in the form of … Continue reading TV Review: You – Season 5