Crime
Film Review – Forge
Writer/director Jing Ai Ng’s Forge (2025) presents a world on three different fronts. The first features the backdrop of Miami, with its sparkling blue waters, beautiful beaches, neon-tinged lights of the city, the hum of nightclubs and restaurants, and the sense that anything can happen at any time.…
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Film Review – The Bride!
Bizarre, absurd, beautiful, tragic, and everything in between, The Bride! (2026) is an ambitious undertaking that re-imagines The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in a completely new light. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal takes a big departure from her last feature (The Lost Daughter (2021)) for a bigger and weirder project. This isn’t just…
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Film Review – Crime 101
Time is one of the major factors running all throughout Crime 101 (2026). Whether it involves characters racing against time to pull off a major heist, regretting all the time that has passed them with little to show for it, or making the most of the time…
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Film Review – The Big Fake
Despite looking great, the Italian film The Big Fake (2026) covers too familiar a path without adding enough of a twist to stand on its own. From its visuals, characters, rhythms, and tones, the narrative is too derivative of other historical crime dramas. In that way, the…
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Film Review – The Rip
The Rip (2026) is the kind of mid-budget crime thriller that may have been a modest hit in theaters decades ago, but whose real success would’ve been found with replays on cable stations. This is a movie built for a TBS or TNT broadcast. That might…
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Film Review – Dead Man’s Wire
In 1977, Tony Kiritsis walked into an Indianapolis mortgage firm with a sawed-off shotgun. Kiritsis was convinced that the company was responsible for unfairly striking down a real estate deal that he had invested all his time, effort, and money into. In a rage, he…
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Film Review – Marty Supreme
It makes sense that the main character of Marty Supreme (2025) starts off working part time at a shoe store. In presence, actions, and speech, Marty Mauser is the ultimate salesman. He dreams of being a world champion table tennis player, but he could very well be…
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Film Review – The Housemaid
The Housemaid (2025) – the big screen adaptation of the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden – contains just the right mix of cheese, trashiness, sexiness, humor, and thrills. It calls to mind ‘90s erotic thrillers you’d see on late night cable. The narratives were less concerned with plausibility…
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