For a movie about an alien that orally falls out of a human’s mouth every night and feasts on the brains of fear-ridden people, Sputnik left me...

Simon Rich is an extremely gifted satirist. The former SNL writer is also the mastermind behind the FX cult comedy Man Seeking Woman and the TBS...

With a skill that would impress even its writer protagonist, I Used to Go Here excels in its efforts to show, not tell. In just its first five...

The paydirt in the opening of Paydirt is actual dirt, stuffed into garbage bags and buried under other dirt, and then dug up by a drug kingpin known...

With all its poignant elements — a World War II setting, a quaint seaside town, a long-lost love, a child who changes an adult’s life for the...

Being a teenager in the early 2000s was its own brand of confusion. Right at the beginning of the digital age, we were only just starting to have...

The life of Marie Curie is one of incredible accomplishment, adversity, and loss. Her legacy is likewise complicated, as her discoveries of...

There are a couple of movies going on in The Rental, both of them starring people that, as both a moviegoer and a person, I really don’t wanna...

War movies tend to fall into two camps. There are the ones like 1917, Dunkirk, or Saving Private Ryan that focus on the mental and emotional impact...

With theatrical releases hitting major obstacles, this summer has brought some truly incredible movies to digital/streaming/VOD.  Sadly, The...

This month’s fringe VOD offerings include an alien invasion, a haunted mansion, and a psychic dominatrix, but none of that quite compares to the...

The Old Guard wants to be the first entry in a franchise very, very badly. Based on the first entry, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written...

“Don’t forget it,” a scrawled note vainly implores its own writer in Relic, a  gutting Australian horror movie about dementia and its...

John Lewis, the distinguished Democratic Congressman from Georgia, moves throughout his own documentary, John Lewis: Good Trouble, like one of those...

In the five years since Hamilton’s debut, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical has saturated popular culture to the point of parody. It’s hard to find...