Movie Reviews

Anniversary is one of the most quietly unnerving political dramas to come out in years, cleverly told through the relationships of one family. Director Jan Komasa crafts a film that feels uncomfortably plausible, exploring how a seemingly fringe political movement can seep into the fabric of ordinary life until it …

Remington Smith’s LandLord took me on a ride that I was afraid of at first. Outside of Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), I don’t really dig too many vampire movies. This includes The Lost Boys and all other staples. The creep factor was not there because you could not relate …

Paul Gandersmans’ Man Finds Tape had me a bit fooled. In the age of found footage, I didn’t get what I was expecting, and that’s not a bad thing at all. I love found footage, but it does get pretty redundant, because it’s such an easy storyline, and it hides …

“THIS is history” -Peter Keyes Its 1991. Imagine you’re five years old. You’re looking for something to watch and you are leafing through your father’s VHS tapes. You’re a big fan of the Robocop action figures and the arcade game. Then you see “Robocop 2” on the side of a …

I’ll never forget the night that I first saw Child’s Play 2. A friend and I went to see it opening weekend and that night after I dropped him off at his house, I had the misfortune of having my first car accident. I had only had my license for …

Yorgos Lanthimos is one of my absolute favorite filmmakers, though I came to him later in his career with Poor Things. Since then I’ve bought his entire filmography and have watched and rewatched all of his films. I’m always excited for a new Yorgos Lanthimos film, especially when it pairs …

Die My Love is a phenomenal and deeply unsettling journey through the fragile mind of a mother on the verge of collapse. The film explores themes of abandonment, identity, and emotional suffocation with an intensity that only a few filmmakers dare to attempt. At its heart lies a mesmerizing performance …

ADORABLE HUMANS (original title Yndige mennesker) is a Danish anthology that reimagines four Hans Christian Andersen (ironically almost exactly 150 years after the author’s death) tales as dark, unsettling looks at human nature. The stories—“The Dead Man,” “The Story of a Mother,” “The Snow Queen,” and “Auntie Toothache”—take familiar fairy-tale ideas …

With its blurred line between fiction and reality, Pasqual Gutierrez’s Serious People sets out to explore creativity, identity, and fatherhood in the age of self-branding. It’s an intriguing concept on paper: a filmmaker hires a doppelgänger to take over his directing duties while he navigates impending fatherhood, only to find …

Whether the short story is in book or movie format, I am a mega fan of short stories. I always look forward to reviewing these the most. I was ecstatic to review the ‘Women in Horror’ short film block for the 2025 Happenstance Horror Fest. Read on to find out …