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Horny Cinema Returns with ‘I Want Your Sex’
Gregg Araki’s ‘I Want Your Sex’ makes movies horny again with a stylish erotic comedy thriller about a dominant contemporary artist (Olivia Wilde) and the aspiring submissive (Cooper Hoffman) who becomes her sexual muse.
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Buddy is a Delightfully Deranged Horror Comedy
A lovable children’s TV show character becomes increasingly unhinged in the new horror comedy Buddy from Too Many Cooks director Casper Kelly.
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Quick Movie Catch-Up: Featured Favorites
From Mollywood to the biggest of Hollywood, from a single apartment to mythological worlds, from dialogue-driven to stylish action, here are a few movies you shouldn’t miss.
Featured Reviews
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Venkatesh Maha’s Drama Meets Satyadev’s Magic in ‘Rao Bahadur’
Director Venkatesh Maha’s ‘Rao Bahadur’ creatively explores themes of oppressive patriarchal legacy through magical realism and a stellar performance from Satyadev Kancharana.
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Big Screen ‘Backrooms’ An Unsettling But Uneven Debut for Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons becomes the latest (and youngest) in the YouTuber-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline with the A24 adaptation of his Backrooms liminal space series.
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Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ a Humorous and Harrowing Horror Story
YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker’s Obsession is like Get Out for “nice guys”, blending funny, disturbing, and highly entertaining horror with surprisingly impactful themes.
Latest Reviews
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For Your Consideration: In a World…
Written, directed and staring Lake Bell, In a World… is a comedy about a struggling vocal coach named Carol who aspires to make it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers. Carol has got the talent and the desire, but is there any room for her at the top? Her biggest competition is her…
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For Your Consideration: ’42: The Jackie Robinson Story’
You won’t need to be a big fan of baseball to appreciate this film. 42 is about so much more than baseball. This biographical sports film about baseball legend Jackie Robinson will take you back to mid-forties America, when racism and segregation were commonplace. The film does use a lot of dramatic license, but if…
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For Your Consideration: Spring Breakers
This film is listed as a comedy and drama, but the only comedy to Spring Breakers is how bad it is. The premise: a bunch of barely legal girls (Venessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine) desperately want to go on spring break, but they can’t afford it, so they rob a restaurant…
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For Your Consideration: The Spectacular Now
If your best years were in high school, then you might want to re-think your life. The Spectacular Now is a coming of age romance, with a little more meat to it than just “boy meets girl…blah, blah, blah”. The two main characters, Sutter Keely, (Miles Teller) and Aimee Finecky, (Shailene Woodley) are complicated in…
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For Your Consideration: Enough Said
Enough Said is a romantic comedy that centers on some very normal, everyday, middle-aged people coping with things like divorce and the fast approaching empty-nest syndrome. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Eva, a massage therapist who has adjusted to being divorced, but a bit uneasy about her only daughter going off to college. The late James…
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For Your Consideration: Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey stars as Ron Woodroof in this biographical drama set in the mid 80’s. Ron is a rodeo bull riding, hellraising, hustler, who thrives in a high-risk world. He takes his chances in with the bulls, the girls, the drugs, and the gambling, and manages to stay ahead of the consequences, until he goes…
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For Your Consideration mini reviews: The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing is as bizarre as it is gripping. This documentary, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, takes a very unconventional approach at getting the truth behind the mass killings made by Indonesian gangsters against those who were believed to be communists living in Indonesia.
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Hiddleston dominates ‘Thor: The Dark World’
Believe it or not, Chris Hemsworth’s outrageously chiseled bod wasn’t my favorite part of Thor: The Dark World. While our titular hero was gorgeous and entertaining, this second entry in the stand-alone Thor movies (those of the non-Avengers variety) was dominated by none other than Tom Hiddleston as Thor’s charmingly villainous brother, Loki.
