Review by James Lidorf Girl Scout cookies are one of the few products in American life that almost everyone has interacted with, whether as a seller, a buyer, or a coworker being cornered in the break room by well-meaning parents. That universal connection...
Greetings again from the darkness. Movie weddings are fertile grounds for romantic-comedies. Folks get dressed up and meet at a fancy venue, while possibly drinking a bit too much and almost certainly dealing with an abundance of family drama. Emotions and...
Review by James Lindorf Will Gluck made two of the better romantic comedies of the last fifteen years with “Easy A” and “Friends with Benefits.” For fans of those films, he lost his way with “Annie” and the “Peter Rabbit” films, but “One Night Only” is a...
Review by James Lindorf Eli Roth built his reputation on films that made audiences deeply uncomfortable, most notably with "Cabin Fever" and the "Hostel" films. He suffered a mid-career slump before reestablishing himself with 2023's "Thanksgiving" as a...
Greetings again from the darkness. Olmo is like most fourteen-year-old boys. His visual fantasizing about the girl of his dreams requires nothing more than a toy car and a glimpse of her walking outside. Yet, Olmo is also different than most his age because...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?” It’s a familiar pitch we hear every year at grocery stores, our front doors, and even at the office as co-workers spread the word on behalf of their scouting daughters. With...
Review by Adam Courtliff Director Will Gluck has made a name for himself within the romantic comedy genre delivering Easy A, Friends with Benefits, and the extraordinary box office success story of Anyone but You so it felt almost inevitable that he would...
Review by Adam Courtliff You never really know what you're going to get when you go into an Eli Roth movie. After all, he has proven himself to be one of the most polarising filmmakers working today, with it being like a flip of a coin whether it's going to...
Review by Adam Courtliff When a film gets unexpectedly pulled from its cinema release with no new date in sight before being dumped straight onto video on demand, it's usually a safe bet that it's going to be an unmitigated disaster. That is exactly what...
Review by Adam Courtliff The rise of biopics hitting the cinema has become hard to ignore, with each new release feeling more like a glorified tick-box exercise than a genuine attempt to delve into the lives of the people they are covering. Of course there...