Author: Victor Moreno
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REVIEW – THE SURFER (2025) delivers an intense claustrophobic descent into madness in this unhinged and tense psychological thriller
Nicolas Cage plays a man on the edge of losing his dream of getting a piece of his youth back in this off-kilter examination of hardcore zen from director Lorcan Finnegan Nicolas Cage does his best work in film when playing characters on the edge of losing themselves. You can see this as early in…
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REVIEW – ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR (2025) is largely a rehash of the original that feels like White Lotus-lite
We’re big fans of the original A Simple Favor, a fun satire on true crime and mommy bloggers that seemed very timely given the rise of bloggers like Bailey Sarian, who mixed makeup tips with breakdowns of serial killers. Queue that up with Blake Lively playing against type of her public persona and Paul Feig’s…
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REVIEW – THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025) subverts the Cinderella story and beauty standards through the lens of body horror.
Director Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut feature casts the spotlight on Cinderella’s stepsister in showing what depths someone will go through for love, acceptance and finding their dreams no matter the cost in this genre period piece. Once upon a time is how most fairy tales begin. From the exposure many first have of them in the…
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REVIEW – THUNDERBOLTS* (2025) is a reminder that Marvel can still deliver fun action and energy to the big screen
Director Jake Schreier (Netflix’s Beef) delivers one of the most engaging features to the Marvel Canon since the heyday of the era of the Russo Brothers and James Gunn. There’s something to the idea that the Peak TV era delivered its best returns as entries in the MCU. When you look at the best films…
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REVIEW – Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS (2025) is a triumph of genre, storytelling and film.
Ryan Coogler’s period set Southern Gothic vampire film transcends the label of elevated horror to deliver one of 2025’s best films of the year. Going into Sinners, the latest film from writer/director Ryan Googler, you might think from the film’s marketing you were just getting something along the lines of From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, a…
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REVIEWS: MICKEY 17 (2025) is a fun and timely satire on the woes of the working class in Bong Joon Ho’s latest exploration of late-stage capitalism
Robert Pattinson plays the unlikely hero in a satire that rings a little close to reality in this sci-fi send-up of populist politics. It’s no secret that Bong Joon Ho harbors a definitive point of view towards populism; the idea that the elites in society are only out for themselves at the expense of the…
