While Succession, The Bear, and Beef dominated Monday night’s 75th Emmy Awards, other fan-favorite series, including Yellowjackets, Ted Lasso, and Better Call Saul concluded the night completely winless. For the latter, unfortunately, this meant Emmy Awards night ended exactly the same as previous years. After earning 53 nominations throughout its critically lauded six-season run, Better […]

Review Species :The Awakening (2007) Director Nick Lyon Writer Dennis Feldman and Ben Ripley Cast Ben Cross, Helena Mattsson, Dominic Keating, Marlene Favela and Roger Codney “I don’t know if I’m human or not. Or if I have a soul or not” – Miranda Have you ever sat down with zero expectations to view something […]

Sometimes the world feels different when an influential person dies, and you grieve even though you never met said person. That was the case for millions on November 22, 1963. Two influential men died that day, within an hour of each other, and both, curiously, were nicknamed “Jack”. You’ve already guessed the first, the 35th […]

Director Chad Stahelski’s long-awaited Highlander reboot is finally happening, with the John Wick filmmaker signing a new deal with Lionsgate. The Highlander reboot, which is due to star The Witcher and Man of Steel’s Henry Cavill as the titular immortal warrior, is now expected to be Stahelski’s next feature, with the director all set to […]

The 2004 teen comedy “Mean Girls,” written by Tina Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes, has become a millennial cult classic in the twenty years since its release. Although part of the key demographic for the film—I was a senior in high school when it was released—I have never […]

Previous seasons of “True Detective” have played with supernatural elements, a flirtation with the idea that there is evil in the world that defies mortal categorization, but none have leaned into an atmosphere of nearly biblical dread like the excellent 6-episode “True Detective: Night Country.” A mesmerizing study of murder, misogyny, racism, cycles of abuse, and […]

Review 976-Evil (1988) Director Robert Englund Writer Rhet Topham and Brian Helgeland Cast Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O’Bryan, Jim Metzler, Sandy Dennis, María Rubell, Lezlie Dane, J.J. Cohen and Robert Picardo “Would it possible to enter the game…with a pair of hearts?” – Hoax Description lifted from the Blu-ray cover: High school underdog Hoax (Geoffreys) fills […]

Greta Gerwig will receive the DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 5, 2024.   Actress, writer, directer Greta Gerwig will be the first American woman to head the 77th Cannes jury.  I remember first seeing Greta at the SXSW film festival where she appeared in a  “mumblecore film”, and […]