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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
