Review by Adam Courtliff With the Fifa World Cup just around the corner and taking place in North America for the first time since 1994, it’s perhaps surprising that Amazon MGM is the first and only studio to try and shoehorn football into a film to make it...
Greetings again from the darkness. For his debut feature film, writer-director Josh Heaps pays tribute to the Italian Giallo films (originating in the 1960’s) he clearly adores. But he goes a step further by creating his own Giallo … placing a Giallo-loving...
Review by Adam Courtliff For a sport as popular as MMA, it feels like one that is not brought to life on screen as often as it should be, far too often playing second fiddle to boxing films. However, Tyler Atkins’ vastly undermarketed latest, Beast, looks to...
Review by Adam Courtliff Video game adaptations are notoriously difficult to pull off. In fact, some of the worst films of the 2020s are adaptations gone terribly wrong. So when Exit 8, a beloved indie game that I myself have poured hours into, was...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s a tradition that began with JAWS (1975). Every summer gets a new disaster or shark movie … something to put a bit of doubt into the minds of beach vacationers everywhere. Of course, Spielberg’s original film (from...
You, Me & Tuscany was cute and fun with a charming story and cast of characters. It also features wonderful music and beautiful Italian scenery. I laughed, some, and I could tell where I was supposed to be sad or on the edge of my seat (some other people in...
Review by Adam Courtliff Personally, I’ve always been a huge advocate for rom-coms. There’s just something about the good ones that breeds an endless sense of joy that courses through my entire body. And while the supply of rom-coms, particularly on...
Greetings again from the darkness. Evidence of the greatness of William Shakespeare has been provided so many times and in so many ways over so many years. Books, live theater, movies, and the work of influenced artists have made their way to various...
Review by Adam Courtliff It feels like a cardinal cinema sin that I haven’t seen the original Faces of Death from 1978. Delivered by John Alan Schwartz, it was often described as one of the most despicable horror films around by teenagers growing up in the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Psychologists long ago concluded that ‘belonging’ is a fundamental human social need. Finding our ‘peeps’ … a group of similar folks to share life with … plays a significant role in our identity – who we are. Documentarian...