★★★★ Queer director Carter Smith’s latest, The Passenger, is a colorful, gorgeously-filmed horror/thriller that also happens to be an intimate character study. Scream kings Kyle Gallner (2022’s Scream, Smile) and Johnny Berchtold (Snow Falls, A Hard Problem) headline this disturbing story depicting an intense rampage across a dying small town. Lou scribe Jack Stanley layers … Continue reading Film Review: The Passenger
TIFF 2022: Roost
★★★★ Anyone that has fears of a movie like Roost glamorizing an old/young relationship can put those feelings to rest immediately. While it is not quite a coercive control drama akin to You Mean Everything to Me or Palm Trees and Powerlines, Roost is not exactly a straight romance, either. More of a twisty dramatic … Continue reading TIFF 2022: Roost
Film Review: Dinner in America
★★★★★ Dinner in America is a twisted rom-com brimming with originality and dark humor. What begins at one extreme is constantly flipped on its head, as messages about reveling in being a punk-rock-loser speak volumes. Crude and aggressive, the brand of comedy here will be off-putting to some—this viewer, however, fell in love with the … Continue reading Film Review: Dinner in America
Film Review: Scream
★★★★★ 1996’s Scream from director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson has, over the years, become a bonafide horror classic, and for good reason. In fact, for yours truly, it remains my favorite film of all time, and subsequently the most consistent franchise in a landscape teeming with sub-par sequels. 2022’s Scream knows how amazing … Continue reading Film Review: Scream
Film Review: The Catch
★★★ The Catch is an old-fashioned crime drama set against the backdrop of coastal Maine. When Beth (Katia Winter) makes a surprise visit back home, she sets off a chain of events that effects her entire family. Still haunted by flashbacks of a tragic accident, Beth reconnects with her unstable ex-boyfriend Dicky (James McMenamin), and … Continue reading Film Review: The Catch