Balls Up, 2026.Directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser, Benjamin Bratt, Eva De Dominici, Daniela Melchior, Molly Shannon, Sacha Baron Cohen and Eric André.SYNOPSIS:Two fired marketing executives played (Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser) drunkenly interfere in a Brazilian World Cup match, causing everyone in the country to hunt them down.Balls Up […]
Movie Review – Mile End Kicks (2025)
Mile End Kicks, 2025.Written and Directed by Chandler Levack. Starring Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, Juliette Gariépy, and Jay Baruchel.SYNOPSIS:A young female music critic moves to Montreal to write a novel about Alanis Morissette, but complications ensue when she becomes romantically involved with two members of the band she is covering.A director’s second feature […]
Movie Review – Dust Bunny (2025)
Dust Bunny, 2025.Written and Directed by Bryan Fuller. Starring Sophie Sloan, Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian, Sheila Atim, and Rebecca Henderson.SYNOPSIS: A little girl hires a man (Mads Mikkelsen) to kill the monster under her bed.Often when artists transition from television to film, their weaknesses become amplified. Years of success on TV— where they […]
Movie Review – Rental Family (2025)
Rental Family, 2025.Written and Directed by Hikari. Starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Akira Emoto, and Shannon Gorman.SYNOPSIS:Fraser plays an American actor adrift in Japan, hired by a rental family agency to “perform” roles in the lives of strangers. A father connecting to a daughter he doesn’t know, a second player for a man […]
Movie Review – Hamnet (2025)
Hamnet, 2025.Directed by Chloe Zhao. Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.SYNOPSIS:A story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet arrives with ideal credentials: a celebrated source text, the backing of Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures, and a […]
Movie Review – Fuck My Son! (2025)
Fuck My Son!, 2025.Directed by Todd Rohal. Starring Tipper Newton, Robert Longstreet, Steve Little, and Kynzie Colmery.SYNOPSIS:A mother’s manic quest pulls an unwitting bystander into a twisted, obscene ordeal that spirals into lunacy and terror.Few films beg for a one-star review more than Todd Rohal’s Fuck My Son!, a supposed midnight-movie provocation that stalls somewhere […]
Movie Review – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, 2025.Directed by Matt Johnson. Starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol.SYNOPSIS:When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.What to say about Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie? If you’ve ever seen the series, […]
Movie Review – Poetic License (2025)
Poetic License, 2025.Directed by Maude Apatow. Starring Andrew Barth Feldman, Cooper Hoffman, Leslie Mann, Nico Parker, and Method Man.SYNOPSIS:Two inseparable best friends, Sam and Ari, start to unravel as they compete for the affection of Liz, the middle-aged mom auditing their college poetry workshop.Poetic License isn’t a great film—but it’s on par with most half-decent […]
Movie Review – It Was Just An Accident (2025)
It Was Just An Accident, 2025.Written and Directed by Jafar Panahi. Starring Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Delnaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi, and Georges Hashemzadeh.SYNOPSIS:A man kidnaps an intelligence agent he believes to have wronged him and plans to kill him but cannot confirm his identity.It Was Just […]
