★★★★ How exactly can a movie whose premise boils down 'man gets swallowed by whale' pack such an emotional wallop? Astonishingly, Whalefall, from director/co-writer Brian Duffield (The Babysitter, Spontaneous, Love & Monsters) accomplishes just that. Austin Abrams has done the whole body horror struggle for survival before, quite recently in fact. Just last month, he … Continue reading Film Review: Whalefall
Film Review: The Dog Stars
★★★ Post-apocalyptic cinema has tackled this exact type of setup so many times before: man and dog hunt for survival together after a plague wipes out most of the world. Bad people try to kill them. Supplies are scarce. Similar to The Walking Dead, those who were either completely immune or figured out a way … Continue reading Film Review: The Dog Stars
Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
★★★★★ At this point in his career, Rian Johnson has become a well known name, perhaps most famously for firmly dividing the fandom with his Star Wars: The Last Jedi. For this critic, his Knives Out films are his crowning achievement. In the third installment of his murder mystery series, the tone shifts dramatically from … Continue reading Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery