Category Archives: Reviews

Warning: Review contains mild spoilers for Avengers: Endgame based only on trailers and promotional materials. This review also contains full spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War. Well, we are finally here. After twenty-one films spanning eleven years, Avengers: Endgame (Joe and … Continue reading →

Art kills. Simply put, that is the literal message of Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw (2019). Best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), which tackled the seedy and morally dubious practice of sensational reportage, Gilroy returns to Los Angeles, this … Continue reading →

Warning: Review contains mild spoilers for Captain Marvel, based only on trailers and promotional materials. It’s odd to think that, after twenty Marvel Cinematic Universe Films (MCU), there has not been an MCU film with a female lead. Though there … Continue reading →

Hereditary (2018) is one of the only films to ever leave me feeling truly horrible, but in a good way. No film has had such a profound psychological effect on my nightmares as Hereditary. It is a truly tense, gripping, … Continue reading →

Having worked primarily on music- and danced-based films previously, director Jon M. Chu brings a distinct visual style to Crazy Rich Asians (2018), making the experience of watching the film both unique and memorable.

The Palm Beach Story (1942) Criterion Blu-ray Review from Liza Palmer Contributors: Wyatt J. Bixby, Matthew Cook, Julia DeNigris, R. W. Freeman, Khai Hammett, Olivia Outlaw, Bonner W. Poston, Madison Rae Reitz, Debra Riddle, Selena Schmidtke, Makenzie N. Smith, and … Continue reading →

Introduction The movie Kalo Pothi [English: Black Hen] is a Nepali movie directed by Min Bahadur Bham. This movie is set around the northwestern part of Nepal and is the first Nepali movie to be screened at the Venice Film … Continue reading →

Election (1999) Criterion Blu-ray Review from Liza Palmer Contributors: Benjamin Davis, David K. Flaherty, Christian E. Gainey, Gregory M. Guidry Amy Hicks, Heather Jensen, Grace Miller, Carla Pike, Nick Ryder, Hannah Sieber, Tory A. Silinski, and K. Francis Sullivan.

After ten years of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, it’s incredible to believe what Disney and Marvel have accomplished after a decade. Not only have Disney and Marvel produced twenty consecutive films that are commercially and critically successful (every single … Continue reading →

Apart from charting the deep, psychological trials of war, granted with such humanistic sensitivity, Ole Bornedal’s ambitious portrayal of the Second Schleswig War of 1864 between Denmark and Prussia is truly an exhortation for both historical reverence and remembrance. As … Continue reading →