There’s an old showbiz adage that says if you can’t stick the landing, at least make sure you fly spectacularly. Wicked: For Good, Jon M. Chu’s glossy follow-up to last year’s unexpectedly charming first installment, certainly flies — often, loudly, and with an avalanche of ...
“People think they’ve seen small-town drama. You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen a leg lamp start a war.” FRAGILÉ opens like someone just handed Gen X a time machine, a snow globe, and a remote control permanently stuck on A Christmas Story reruns. From the first frame, the ...
Picture this: the bounty hunters think they’ve finally trapped the resurrected killer in the busted‑up midway. Lights are flickering, the carousel’s groaning like it’s about to collapse, and then Robert Mukes—looking like a slasher action figure that somehow came to life—steps out ...
If ever there was a movie that could make “Sweet Caroline” feel new again, it’s Song Sung Blue. Filmmaker Craig Brewer, best known for bringing earthy, musical energy to Hustle & Flow, turns his attention to a love story so improbably true it almost feels like a tall tale told ...
Every so often, a low‑budget indie sneaks up on you with more heart than polish, and Heartland Harmony is exactly that kind of film. Directed by Lana Read, it doesn’t try to dazzle with special effects or blockbuster spectacle—instead, it leans into sincerity, humor, ...
Speed Train is 86 minutes of low-budget lunacy—and somehow, against all laws of physics, filmmaking, and common sense, it actually works. This is the kind of movie that feels like it was shot in a rented warehouse, decorated with LED strip lights from Amazon, and ...
The Michigan Dogman has been lurking around the edges of pop culture for decades now—part campfire story, part late-night-radio fever dream, part “my cousin swears he saw it behind the Arby’s.” Dawn of the Dogman takes all that glorious weirdness and says, “Okay, but ...
Chloé Zhao’s deeply felt, yet restrained new film, Hamnet, is the kind of cinematic experience that sneaks up on you. You know the kind: it’s subtle at first, then keeps pecking and poking at you like an unshakable memory that leaves you teary-eyed in the grocery store ...
Never Have I Ever is a scrappy little thriller that understands one universal truth: nothing good ever happens to a writer on a deadline. Sam, a screenwriter whose career is hanging by a thread, is already drowning in stress before the film really gets going — overdue pages, threats of ...
OnlyFangs is the kind of horror-comedy that feels like someone dared two filmmakers to mash up The Lost Boys with a startup pitch meeting—and somehow they accepted. Paul Ragsdale and Angelica De Alba, the directors, confidently embrace the absurdity, creating a ...