Movie Reviews

TRIGGER WARNING This review brings up the horror of non-consensual sex. Please read with caution. Also, remember, you don’t know your own strength. You survived, and that’s something to be thankful for. Keep on keeping on. Kevin Lewis’s Pig Hill left me wanting a bit more. Maybe I was just …

Roel Reinés  Savage Hunt turned out a bit wilder than I thought. Killer animals have always been cool with me. I enjoy watching humans meet their fate because of their ignorance. The film can be related to so many wildlife stories, amped all the way up to eleven. Though it …

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 …