Eighth Grade (4 stars) Not rated, 94 minutes. Release date is to be announced. By Preston Barta Film Critic AUSTIN – Comedian Bo Burnham’s feature debut, Eighth Grade, is funny, relatable, honest –everything you could want from a good coming-of-age movie. This...
Review by Preston Barta Lean on Pete (4 stars) Rated R, 121 minutes. Opens in Dallas on April 13. A24, the indie distributor that’s been nothing but on a roll since they came onto the scene five years ago, has six titles they’re screening at the South by Southwest...
Review by Lauryn Angel From what I’ve heard from others who saw the movie early, I’m probably going to be in the minority when I say that I enjoyed The Strangers: Prey at Night. I suspect that a lot of my enjoyment comes from the environment in which I saw it: a...
Movies are a truly fascinating thing. They can inspire, entertain, educate, and touch the human heart in ways almost no other art form can. Sometimes a movie is just simple entertainment for one person and a life changing experience for another. It is odd how one...
Greetings again from the darkness. Your recollection of Tonya Harding is likely not that she was the 1991 U.S. Champion figure skater and a two-time Olympian. And rather than honoring her as the first female skater to land a triple axel in competition, you likely...
Greetings again from the darkness. Recent release THE JUSTICE LEAGUE is filled with superheroes, but filmmaker-extraordinaire Guillermo del Toro finds his league of misfits and outcasts to be much more interesting - as do I. The numerous possible descriptions of this...
Suspense, smoke and spine-tingling chills are on the menu when horror icon Jamie Bernadette and Justine Wachsberger, star of the Divergent series, face a 4/20 Massacre. Premiering on VOD and DVD 4/3 from Film Chest, the first-ever “stoner slasher” movie pits today’s...
Greetings again from the darkness. Each year provides us with (at least) a few hidden gems sprinkled amongst the superheroes and newfangled special effects displays, and although this feature film debut from filmmaker Cory Finley is only now hitting theatres, it seems...
Review by James Lindorf From the 80s to the mid-90s, Lou DiMaggio (no relation to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio) was a regular in comedy clubs and on television. He worked for 4 years at the iconic Catch A Rising Star comedy club in New York City and made lasting...
Greetings again from the darkness. In a perfect cinematic world, great acting elevates a terrific script. However, the best case scenario for a weak script, or in this case a messy one, is that it can be offset by acting. Fortunately for director Nash Edgerton (it’s...