Jacoba Ballard was conceived through a sperm donor using artificial insemination. Growing up as an only child, she dreamed of having siblings. After using an at-home DNA test, Ballard discovered that...

Intelligent horror. Yes, such a thing actually exists. Granted, that’s not always what the hordes of hungry horror fans looking to fulfill their bloodlust want from the genre, but for those who like t...

Expecting a film like The Lost City to be rich with meaningful ideas and impactful motifs would be setting expectations way too high. That’s just not why people are attracted to romantic adventure fil...

So, you think you’re carrying some emotional baggage? Wait until you see the giant gorilla-proof hardside suitcase of emotional trauma Lulu, the retired military dog, and former Army Ranger Briggs ( C...

Ever the visionary storyteller, Guillermo del Toro , steps a bit outside his comfort zone and journeys into the world of noir fiction with his latest film, Nightmare Alley , the heart-wrenching story...

Ghostface is back! Though it has been ten real-life years since we last saw the sad-faced masked murderer on the big screen, he’s still terrorizing the teens of the fictional town of Woodsboro where a...

Wasted talent. That’s the most economical way to sum up The 355 , a female-led globetrotting espionage action thriller that finds its multi-racial cast of Hollywood A-listers muddling through a script...

There’s a magnificently intriguing element that snakes its way through every one of Sean Baker ’s films. From 2012’s Starlet , to 2015’s Tangerine , and then 2017’s The Florida Project , the indie fil...

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted the Western drama THE POWER OF THE DOG as the best film of 2021, according to the results of its 28th annual critics’ poll released today. Followin...

In today’s world of divisiveness and animosity fueled by the 24 hour news cycle that mines its content from our dissimilarities and opposing views, we could all be better served by appreciating and ac...

Nobody has ever failed so hard at trying to be good as The Bad Guys. In the new action comedy from DreamWorks Animation , based on the New York Times best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal c...

Let’s first address the elephant in the room: that unappealing title of the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson called Licorice Pizza . It comes from a now-defunct Southern California record store chai...

We've known that a return to the face of madness has been in the works for quite some time so, needless to say, it was a great joy to hear that Netflix has finally released a trailer for its revisit t...

Achieving the impossible is easy. All one needs is a clear vision, a lofty dream, and a brazen plan to make it come true, right? At least that’s what Richard Williams would have us believe. After all,...

A small little underdog of a movie: it’s hard to believe but that’s exactly what Silence of the Lambs was. It was a film nobody wanted to make. Gene Hackman , who had paid for half the rights, bowed o...