The Latest Podcast #119: Oscars, Scream VI

This week, Jesse and guest Daniel Feingold discuss the 2023 Academy Awards.

SXSW Film Festival 2023: UNTIL BRANCHES BEND
SXSW Film Festival 2023: UNTIL BRANCHES BEND

Until Branches Bend’s lackluster attempt to craft tension and urgency leaves its audience uninvested and without curiosity for more.

SXSW Film Festival 2023: CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT, SISTER & SISTER AND RAGING GRACE
SXSW Film Festival 2023, Report 1: CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT, SISTER & SISTER And RAGING GRACE

My first foray into this year’s SXSW festival is a trio of first-time feature debuts by directors from various parts of the world.

HALLOWEEN ENDS & HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS Without Supernatural Elements
HALLOWEEN ENDS & HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS Without Supernatural Elements

Halloween Ends and the druid-focused Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers bear more similarities than immediately expected.

SXSW Film Festival 2023: QUEENDOM
SXSW Film Festival 2023: QUEENDOM

Queendom thus far is one of the best documentaries of the year.

Glasgow Film Festival 2023: MISTER ORGAN
Glasgow Film Festival 2023: MISTER ORGAN

Ultimately, Mister Organ is a fascinating – and hilarious – look at one man’s rampant narcissism and how it affects those he comes into contact with.

YELLOWJACKETS S2 Trailer
YELLOWJACKETS S2 Trailer

A wildly talented high school girl soccer team becomes the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.

Free Skate: An Axel-lent Drama
Free Skate: An Axel-lent Drama

Free Skate is an engaging character-driven drama that skates the edge of being a thriller as it progresses.

STILL THE WATER: A Movie That Floats A Little Too Slowly
STILL THE WATER: A Movie That Floats A Little Too Slowly

While Still the Water feels pleasant, its existential questions are frustratingly left untraversed by its subtlety.

Glasgow Film Festival 2023: THE BEASTS
Glasgow Film Festival 2023: THE BEASTS

Initially, a terrific, tense, and brutal tale of class warfare, animalistic nature, and devastating consequences, over 2 1/2 hrs, it can’t sustain.

Glasgow Film Festival 2023: GOD'S CREATURES
Glasgow Film Festival 2023: GOD’S CREATURES

Ultimately, God’s Creatures is a well made, well acted piece of filmmaking, if only it was able to tie together its elements a little better.

UNWELCOME: Embrace It
UNWELCOME: Embrace It

Unwelcome works as a decent horror film in general, but with St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, it takes on a new vibrancy of success.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING- PART ONE Trailer
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING- PART ONE Trailer

The seventh and penultimate installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.

REBROKEN: They Almost Did It
REBROKEN: They Almost Did It

Rebroken has really good first and second acts, but somewhere along the way it loses its confidence.

The Latest Podcast #139: Best Films of TIFF 2023
The Latest Podcast #118: Creed III

This week, Jesse and guest Rilwan Balogun discuss Creed III, along with their thoughts on the larger Rocky franchise.