2025

The Melbourne International Film Festival 2025: Ghosts, Chainsaws, and Porridge
The Melbourne International Film Festival 2025: Ghosts, Chainsaws, and Porridge

The Melbourne International Film Festival returns for another year of movies and events at one of the best festivals in the world. 

"How Far Does the Dark Go?" review
HOW FAR DOES THE DARK GO?: Queer Vampire Drama Sucks In All The Wrong Ways

The most interesting and important movies in the world today are being made by trans…

HollyShorts 2025: Little Bird & The Stand: Two Powerful Shorts
HollyShorts 2025: Little Bird & The Stand: Two Powerful Shorts

In The Stand and Little Bird, our leads hustle and fight to get by in a country that seems to stack the odds ever-increasingly against them.

"Superman" (2025) - source: Warner Bros.
SUPERMAN: Maybe the Most Progressive Hollywood Blockbuster of the 21st Century

Superman is possibly the most left-leaning blockbuster Hollywood has produced in the last 20 years.…

WEAPONS: A Darkly Funny, Bizarrely Entertaining Horror Film
WEAPONS: A Darkly Funny, Bizarrely Entertaining Horror Film

Weapons is many things: an entertaining genre film that is both funny and horrifying, an acting showcase for its talented cast.

But What About the Key of Rock? Freakier Friday's Missed Punk Opportunity
But What About the Key of Rock? Freakier Friday’s Missed Punk Opportunity

Freakier Friday is a missed opportunity. In this moment of Y2K nostalgia and resurgent conservative political backlash to feminism, we need punk rock.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS: A Fantastic First Step for Marvel’s First Family

A wonderful addition to the MCU and the superhero canon, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a breath of fresh air in the genre.

In TOGETHER, Comedy is Horror’s Better Half

Together’s greatest strengths lie in its wry reflections on the pleasures and perils of long-term romance.

TITAMI: Fierce and Refusing to Flinch
TATAMI: Fierce and Refusing to Flinch

In a world that constantly asks women (especially women under authoritarian regimes) to stay silent, Tatami dares to scream. And, it speaks volumes. 

"Jurassic World: Rebirth" review
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH: The Best JURASSIC Movie Since THE LOST WORLD

Few movie franchises have battled allegations of greed like Jurassic Park. Since Steven Spielberg’s trailblazing…

RIVER OF GRASS: The Sensations of Nature in a Threatened Biome
RIVER OF GRASS: The Sensations of Nature in a Threatened Biome

River of Grass works as both a documentary and personal essay film, giving the movie a fresh experimental angle that allows it to reach beyond.

THE LIFE OF CHUCK: An Uneven King Adaptation With Bursts of Inspiration
THE LIFE OF CHUCK: An Uneven King Adaptation With Bursts of Inspiration

The overall takeaway of the film is maybe not as profound as it could be given the film’s haphazardly constructed narrative, yet it still has enough in here to recommend.

28 YEARS LATER: Brings Spark Back to a Decades-Old Series

28 Years Later excels in the way it does not because it’s yet another zombie movie in an endless array of them, but because it is different.

Meet Tina Romero, the New Queen of the Dead

Queens of a Dead is a breath of fresh air that celebrates the girls, the gays, and the goreheads alike. 

Stolen Time review
STOLEN TIME: Elder Justice Doc Will Break Your Heart

One of life’s cruelest inevitabilities is that the people we love most grow old and…