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THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA MOVIE REVIEW In 1984, an unemployed ice cream truck driver named Michael Larson went on the game show Press Your Luck and broke the record for most money won on an American game show. That true story is the basis for The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser […]

MEMOIR OF A SNAIL MOVIE REVIEW There are some filmmakers out there that appear to have an agenda to make the audience feel utter despair and sadness. Much like his previous film Mary & Max, Adam Elliot’s newest picture, Memoir of a Snail, drives home how truly terrible it can be to just exist in […]

AZRAEL MOVIE REVIEW Some time after the Rapture, we find civilization in disarray and no one can speak. Azrael follows the titular character (Samara Weaving) and her partner Kenan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), as they escape imprisonment from a female-led community of religious zealots. As she’s recaptured, she is due to be sacrificed by an evil entity, […]

THE DEVIL’S BATH MOVIE REVIEW In 18th century Austria, love is in the air! Or in the very least, an arrangement made between random strangers to please their lineage and God by becoming one under holy matrimony and offering up their wedding bed for the good of procreation and carrying on the will of the […]

ODDITY MOVIE REVIEW We’ll never look at a terrifying, lifesize, wooden Golem the same ever again. Damian McCarthy’s second feature film, Oddity, has an incredibly simple and dread inducing setup. Carolyn Bracken plays Dani who’s renovating her home while her husband Dr Timmis, played by Gwilym Lee, works the overnight shift at the local mental […]

BIRTH/REBIRTH MOVIE REVIEW Do you like undead children, zombie pigs, and Mini-DV tapes? Well you’re in luck! Birth/Rebirth is Laura Moss’ directorial debut with a chilling and unnerving story about the lengths that a mother would go through for her child. Judy Reyes stars as Celie, an overworked RN, whose daughter Lila, played by A.J. […]

BIOSPHERE MOVIE REVIEW So there’s this movie about a couple buddies locked inside a self-sufficient dome…No, not that movie. This one is a serious examination of masculinity, gender, race and Super Mario Bros starring Mark Duplass as Billy and Sterling K. Brown as Ray. These long-time friends seemingly find themselves the only humans left on […]

PAINT MOVIE REVIEW What if Bob Ross wasn’t who you thought he was? What if he was embroiled in some sort of seedy scandal? That’s the thought that led writer/director Brett McAdams to create Paint, the new IFC film starring Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross analog. Carl has hosted Burlington, Vermont’s number one […]

SPIN ME ROUND MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Jeff Baena, whose previous work includes the comedies The Little Hours and Life after Beth, returns to transport us to the enchanted Italian countryside where romance and wonder lie in wait…well, that’s certainly what all the travelogues say, right? Starring and co-written by Alison Brie, Spin Me Round tells […]

RESURRECTION MOVIE REVIEW In 1999 an evil Scottish villain named Fat Bastard stared down a mini me and said “Get in my Belly!”. This hilarious timeless quote is most likely not the inspiration for writer/director Andrew Semans film Resurrection but it would certainly explain a lot if it influenced it to some degree. Margaret (Rebecca Hall) is […]

THE NOVICE MOVIE REVIEW In Lauren Hadaway’s writing and directorial debut “The Novice”, college freshman Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman) joins in her university’s rowing and is shown to be very motivated and competitive, often to physical and psychological levels of obsession to be on the top varsity boat. It’s all she cares about and that […]

SETTLERS MOVIE REVIEW This movie about colonizing Mars is interestingly timed, seeing as a couple of billionaires have recently shot themselves into orbit in their definitely not overcompensating giant dick rockets, and the conversation of space travel and eventual colonization of Mars is prominent in the zeitgeist. But people discuss going to the Red Planet […]

WEREWOLVES WITHIN MOVIE REVIEW Sam Richardson (“Veep”) plays Finn, an amiable, always ‘up’, brand new forest ranger to the tiny mountain town of Beaverton. He has NO idea what he’s in for. Sure, the local postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) is super-sweet and definitely is sending him some signals, but everyone else seems a leeeeeetle […]

UNDINE MOVIE REVIEW Based on the myth of Undine, Christian Petzold creates a movie about romance, betrayal and very specific German architecture lessons. Undine (Paula Beer) is a woman who has been wronged in a past relationship, but she meets a new partner named Christoph (Franz Rogowski), an industrial diver, and the two hit the […]