The excitement is real, the energy, electric as the beautiful people with pearly whites and excellent smells about them schmooz and schmaltz on the red carpet under the bright lights and in front of the cameras. Cinequest returned in top form to kick off its 28th year. This year’s festival opener was the world premiere […]
What if you played a game of Truth or Dare, but the stakes were life and death? While that is a brilliant premise for a horror movie, the actual movie Truth or Dare is surprisingly not particularly good. In fact, it’s one of the worst movies of 2018. Jokes aside, the premise of a deadly […]
Despite the overwhelming title, this heartwarming tale of love, loyalty and passion for reading almost never made it to print. Before the novel’s release in 2008, the editor had gone back to the original author, Mary Ann Shaffer, and asked for a few re-writes. Being her first book, she desperately wanted to get the requests […]
Girls now get their chance to lead a teen sex comedy thanks to Pitch Perfect writer Kay Cannon, making her directional debut. Julie (Kathryn Newton), Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan) and Sam (Gideon Adlon) have been best friends since the age of five. Now on the cusp of graduation and womanhood the trio make a pact to lose their […]
A supernatural thriller from renowned Norwegian director Joachim Trier, Thelma tells the story of the eponymous character (Eili Harboe) moving away from her conservative Christian family to attend university in Oslo. It is a bleakly atmospheric film throughout, and the audience is subjected to disjointed visions and revealing flashbacks scattered amongst the surrealist plot. Thelma […]
The road trip concept has managed to cross over most continents and into most genres of film. As the characters get behind the wheel, the story can be a metaphor for personal growth and can serve as means of mending relationships. For all of those individuals who have experienced the real-life versions of this narrative […]
The world of tennis may be an enigma to many, but Wimbledon has established itself as the premier event in this world of rackets, balls and some of the unique personalities in the sport. For tennis fans, these grass courts in England are the pinnacle of the game and have come to define the game. […]
Love, Simon has changed the game for LGBT+ movies forever – that fact remains undeniable. Though we saw the unlikely event of Moonlight, a black gay love story, being honored at the Oscars a few years ago, that didn’t really mark a change in gay stories making it in the mainstream. Like Brokeback Mountain, its success […]
Horror films have been around since the inception of cinema. Creative use of light, makeup and jump scares continue to light up screens around the world in a multitude of languages, because terror is universal. Even though not everyone enjoys being entertained by being scared out of their socks, every once in awhile a horror […]
Indie director Wes Anderson has made his first animated film since 2009 with his Japanese set Isle of Dogs, mixing his signature style and bringing back a bit of darkness and grit to the animation genre. Ten centuries ago the cat-loving Kobayashi clan went to war with dogs and nearly won until a boy known as The Little Samurai stood […]
