East of Wall — a quiet, rugged ode to the New West. There’s a small, stubborn subgenre in contemporary American cinema that lives somewhere between documentary and fiction: films that…
Quick Facts & Overview. Title: Together (2025). Director / Writer: Michael Shanks (feature directorial debut). Genre: Horror / Body horror / Psychological romance hybrid. Runtime: ~102 minutes. Budget (estimated): ~$17…
The Wildman of Shaggy Creek — small-town summer magic, Bigfoot, and a kid who has to grow up fast. The Wildman of Shaggy Creek is a family-friendly coming-of-age adventure that…
Quick Facts & At a Glance. Title: The Roses (2025). Director: Jay Roach. Screenplay: Tony McNamara (based on The War of the Roses by Warren Adler). Runtime: 105 minutes. Language…
Introduction & Premise of The Bad Guys 2. The Bad Guys 2 is the animated sequel to DreamWorks’ 2022 film The Bad Guys. Directed by Pierre Perifel (with co-direction by…
Basic Info & Context. Title: Night Always Comes (also sometimes referred to with “The / Night Always Comes”) Release & Platform: The film was released on Netflix on August 15,…
Basic Info & Context. “Frankenstein” is the 2025 Gothic-science-fiction re-imagining of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. Runtime: approximately 150 minutes.…
Movie blog — Late Fame (2025): Rediscovery, Bohemia and the Quiet Price of Attention. There’s something deliciously melancholy about a film that asks whether being “discovered” later in life is…
Movie blog — Dead Man’s Wire (2025): Hostage Drama, Media Spectacle, and the Anatomy of a Fringe Hero. Gus Van Sant returns to cinema with Dead Man’s Wire, a moody,…
Quick Facts & Context. Title: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Director & Writer: Rian Johnson. Key star returning: Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc. Other principal cast: Josh…
Movie blog — 100 Nights of Hero: a queer folktale, a maid with a story, and the art of outlasting a bet. If you loved the intimacy of a chamber…
Movie blog — Rose of Nevada (2025): a ghost trawler, time that sticks, and the salt-stung logic of grief. Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada is the kind of small-budget British…
Basic Info & Context. H Is for Hawk is a 2025 British drama film directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, and co-written by Lowthorpe and Emma Donoghue, based on H Is for…
Quick Facts Title: Caught Stealing (2025). Director & Producer: Darren Aronofsky. Screenplay: Charlie Huston (based on his novel Caught Stealing). Music: Rob Simonsen, score recorded with the British post-punk band…
Quick Facts. Title: The Thursday Murder Club Director: Chris Columbus Screenplay by: Katy Brand & Suzanne Heathcote, based on the 2020 novel by Richard Osman Runtime: 118 minutes Release: Limited…