Todd Haynes’ May December pits your emotions against each other, basking in situations that walk a fine line to where morality should land. At certain moments, the film can’t help but invoke laughter – especially when composer Marcelo Zarvos imparts his dramatic piano keys likened to a campy, melodrama. Then, when you think that you […]
October 23, 2023
It’s hard to watch Fancy Dance and not see that the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma has been left to fend for itself. Erica Tremblay centers this film around one particular disappearance mystery and how family members try to pick up the pieces with little to no assistance. Tawi (Hauli Gray) has gone missing, and even […]
October 23, 2023
How does a group with three number-one hits and a 1990s Grammy for Best New Artist become the center of ridicule and parody? People may remember the In Living Color skit or the VH1 Behind The Music episode that sadly contains the last full in-depth interview from the late Rob Pilatus. But there’s a lot […]
October 23, 2023
Editor’s note: This review was originally published during the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. We’ve all heard the expression, “I wouldn’t sleep with you if you were the last person on Earth.” Put that premise within a spaceship floating off to who knows where. Considering that you are one of two people on this journey, you […]
October 21, 2023
This review is published as part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 New York Film Festival coverage. To actively describe the overall ethos of Michael Mann’s Ferrari is to picture the hard crashing to earth of a compelling figure from all sides of his life within a three-month period in 1957. The first glimpse of Enzo Ferrari […]
October 19, 2023
Dreams are the place where impossibilities fall to the wayside. They are often containers of our biggest desires, replays of our greatest strugglers, and haunted houses of our greatest fears. Sometimes, they are just downright silly and unfathomable. Nevertheless, they are personal places of vulnerability – unless we decide to jot them down or speak […]
October 18, 2023
Steven (Peter Dinklage) is struggling, which may be an understatement as he’s an opera composer who has been in the clutches of writer’s block for five years straight. In the opening moments of She Came To Me, we see him at an event, hiding from people because the word going around is that he had […]
October 18, 2023
The 1963 March on Washington was one of the most historic moments during the Civil Rights Era, let alone American history. There, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech that stands today as a pillar to bring people together and has even been used by bad faith actors in their […]
October 18, 2023
This review is published as part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 New York Film Festival coverage. “I am the world’s greatest assassin.” It’s one of the first lines from AGGRO DR1FT’s main character, BO (Jordi Mollà). He wants to clarify that he is excellent at what he does and loves his wife and child in a […]
October 17, 2023
This review is published as part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 New York Film Festival coverage. Frankenstein and adjacent stories mainly follow the blueprint of Mary Shelley’s original 1818 novel. A scientist decides to dabble in reanimation to defy death and restart life. They partake in an experiment to do so and briefly bask In the […]
October 17, 2023
The internet landscape in which the original 2017 Dear David creepypasta story took off has changed so much that this story might as well have been decades ago. For one, Twitter isn’t even Twitter anymore (I refuse to call it X), and the atmosphere isn’t as kind to a spontaneous creative endeavor such as this […]
October 16, 2023