Drama
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 Devil Wears Prada 2
I should confess right off the bat that I was never the biggest fan of The Devil Wears Prada (2006). While it has its charms and the performances all around were fun, I never bought into its story. It wants to play both sides of the coin,…
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Film Review – Omaha
***This Review Contains Mild Spoilers*** In tone, style, and execution, Omaha (2025) is one of those archetypal indies that makes a big splash on the festival circuit. These films are usually intimate in scope, grounded in its world building, and may not always have the happiest of…
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Film Review – I Swear
It’s unfortunate that this past BAFTA Awards was tainted over the “controversy” surrounding John Davidson and the film about his life, I Swear (2025). The incident, involving Davidson (who has Tourette’s syndrome) and actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, created a heated and ugly online whirlwind in which people felt…
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Film Review – The Optimist
World War II and The Holocaust continues to be a source of endless stories, whether it is about military strategy, unspeakable horror, or profound acts of humanity. Writer/director Finn Taylor’s The Optimist (2023) recounts the true story of Herbert Heller, a Jew from Czechoslovakia who – along…
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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 – Dreams
Dreams (2025) is the kind of movie that keeps us guessing. Whether that is a good or bad thing will be up to the viewer. The trailer would have us believe that this is an erotic thriller with themes of immigration and privilege sprinkled in. While…
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Film Review – Pillion
Pillion (2025) strives to be another A24 hit, thrust forth into the moviegoers’ consciousness by another stellar marketing campaign. Based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones, screenwriter and director Harry Lighton knew exactly what this story could be and struck gold with the…
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