2024

Glasgow Film Festival 2025: GHOSTLIGHT
Glasgow Film Festival 2025: GHOSTLIGHT

Ghostlight is at once profound and moving and insightful, and features some of the most natural chemistry and acting you’ll see on screen this year.

WHO BY FIRE: Well-Tread Material

There aren’t any stylistic flairs that Who By Fire brings to the table that differentiate this film from the prototypical coming-of-age movie.

AN UNFINISHED FILM: Once Upon a Time During COVID
AN UNFINISHED FILM: Once Upon a Time During COVID

An Unfinished Film’s creative and sensitive approach to depicting life during the COVID-19 pandemic deserves to be seen.

BLOODY AXE WOUND: Struggling To Find Identity
BLOODY AXE WOUND: Struggling To Find Identity

Bloody Axe Wound’s ideas were there but the writing couldn’t back them up or bring them to a place where we could fully care about anything happening.

Slamdance 2025: Noggin and Bloqué
Slamdance 2025: Noggin and Bloqué

Today, we’re looking at two shorts: One about a filmmaker preparing for the progression of his diagnosis, the other about a drummer struggling creatively.

HOUSE OF SPOILS: Mostly Just Rotten Food
HOUSE OF SPOILS: Mostly Just Rotten Food

House of Spoils is striking and interesting at first, but by the time the action comes it is too little, too late.

NOSFERATU: More Than A Mustache
NOSFERATU: More Than A Mustache

Nosferatu is a cinema masterpiece, an art house piece from an indie director who could do anything he wanted yet he chooses to make high art.

Slamdance 2025: My Omaha and The Hole Story
Slamdance 2025: My Omaha and The Hole Story

Today, we’re looking at two documentaries: One focusing on social justice in Omaha, and another exploring a mysterious hole in northern California.

"Nickel Boys" (2024) - source: Amazon MGM Studios
NICKEL BOYS: An Uneven Experiment In Perspective

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys follows a young man,…

A Case for 'Flow' Winning Best Animated Feature
A Case for ‘Flow’ Winning Best Animated Feature

In my opinion, no picture is more worthy of receiving best animated feature than Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow (2024).

THE QUIET ONES: Going Through the Motions

Teal and orange have made a serious comeback, at least in Frederik Louis Hviid’s new…

"The Outrun" (2024) Saoirse Ronan Nora Fingscheidt
Interview with Writer/Director Nora Fingscheidt for THE OUTRUN

Most movies aren’t shot on the Orkney Islands. But The Outrun isn’t most movies. Directed…

"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" 2025 Oscar snubs
Staff Inquiry: Biggest 2025 Oscars Snubs

The 97th Academy Awards are an odd mix of left-field critical darlings and huge movies.…

One Night in Tokyo review
ONE NIGHT IN TOKYO: A Modest Indie Overcoming The Barrier of Language

Any chance I get to live vicariously through someone else’s experience in Japan, I’ll take…

EAT THE NIGHT: A Clumsy but Emotionally Resonant Gamer Thriller
EAT THE NIGHT: A Clumsy but Emotionally Resonant Gamer Thriller

In the end Eat the Night manages to make myself, a video-game skeptic, more of a believer of its affecting power.