Category: Looking Back

We had some of our regular contributors suggest movies from this year that flew under the radar or aren’t getting enough […]

One need only turn on CNN, check Twitter, or look to this year’s Golden Globes nominations to see that the fragility […]

With all the big budget, heavily franchised stories of people with special powers (mutants, as they might uncharitably be called), it’s […]

Starring Jack Quaid (son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid) and Maya Erskine, Plus One is a charming romantic comedy that […]

The year had no shortage of talking animal movies — and might have even hit a nadir with the atrocious Lion […]

Influencer culture is derided at worst, misunderstood at best in 2019. Thankfully there are filmmakers like Liza Mandelup out there documenting […]

Movies should be fun, and Happy Death Day 2U may know that better than any movie released this year. It’s a […]

Ready or Not is an explosion. In a year filled with entertaining, highbrow movies about class disparity, it was a lowbrow […]

The dominance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has essentially crowded out the kind of smaller-scale, diverse superhero stories that are more […]

J.D. Dillard’s fascinating survival horror movie Sweetheart premiered at Sundance and was produced by the genre specialists at Blumhouse, who’ve made […]

The “home invasion” subgenre has been flipped on its head a number of times, enough that Villains’ concept of two petty […]

In the social wasteland that is the end of the 2010s, empathy seems to be on its way out. Daniel Scheinert, […]