The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Review: Family Dysfunction Gets the Superhero Treatment

The Umbrella Academy series leaves many questions in its wake, and they’re not entirely those it wants us to ask. That’s not to say it doesn’t have a lot going for it. For one, it’s a superhero offering that’s not…

Movie Review: Flatliners

One of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions is, “What happens after we die?” Do we go to a heaven-like paradise or are we doomed to stay in the ground for eternity? Out of all of the unnecessary sequels and remakes, Flatliners…

25 movies that understand female relationships

If there is a relationship that could always use more exposure in film, it’s that been the friendships struck up by women. From the special, intimate bonds you find as teenagers in throes of puberty and high-school angst, to the…

Movie Review: Tallulah

Warning: This movie review contains spoilers. Set in the concrete jungle of New York City, Tallulah explains what it means to feel (or not feel) attached to a permanent home, family and others. Going from town to town, Tallulah travels…

Movie Review: Into the Forest

I have a fascination with looking at old photographs, especially those taken of familiar  landscapes and landmarks. Seeing how nature is slowing being turned into smooth concrete or towering, iron structures feels reassuring but also bleak. I get a similar feeling…

Interview: Actress Tammy Blanchard on ‘Tallulah’

If you’ve seen the posters for the new Netflix original film Tallulah, you’ve noticed the shadowy image of a lusty woman with a cigarette in her hands and curlers in her hair. What you might not realize is that caricature…

First trailer for Into the Forest debuts

For a film that I had known very little about before today, the Ellen Page starring Into the Forest is now one of my most anticipated of the year and this is all due to a quietly chilling trailer. Haunting, beautifully captured…