Now Emmy-season shoo-ins, HBO original films were once largely indiscernible from skinflint, straight-to-video action schlock. Boasting titles like Fever, Fortress, Blind Side, Blue Ice or…
Shin Ultraman is a loving tribute to the classic 1960s version of the tokusatsu franchise wrapped in a frustrating, poorly directed shell. For incoming audiences…
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker arrives more ready for a Westernized remake than any of the Japanese writer-director’s previous mainstream-minded meditations on the fluid meanings of family…
Every few years since his 2014 coronation with Whiplash, writer-director Damien Chazelle has dropped something radically different — first, a full-blown original musical in 2016’s…
Razzennest is a clever and pointed satire of the way films are consumed by the contemporary commentariat. It is also a pretty effective nuts-and-bolts audio-horror…
Having seen the totality of Edward Drake's Detective Knight trilogy, I can confidently say Detective Knight: Independence is the best of the three. The first,…
"There are no cowboy cops. And they've killed all our heroes." Detective Knight: Redemption is a considerable improvement over Detective Knight: Rogue but it still…