Bad Times at the El Royale Movie Review: Drew Goddard’s Neo-Noir Thriller is a Mostly Good Time

There are myriad things to which one could compare Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale: a LEGO set, for all its pieces that are meant to come together in the end, a process that usually requires the assembler…

First Man Movie Review: Neil Armstrong’s Story Gets A Big Blistering Biopic

There was a time when going to the moon was considered the scariest thing a human could possibly do. Despite the wonder surrounding the first men to land on another planet, the build-up to that moment was full of death,…

‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction

Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…

The Image Book Movie Review | VIFF 2018

There’s a moment in Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book where the forerunner of Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave) takes home footage of a young girl who—perhaps for the first time in her life—watches an incoming train coming to a station.…

The Purge 1×05 Review: “Rise Up” Sets Things Up to Get Bloody

“Rise Up” marks the halfway point for the limited series and it sets up future episodes in a way that is sure to end in blood. After an episode that was weak, “Rise Up” does just the opposite. It rose…

Album Review: Hippo Campus – “Bambi”

They were coy little things when they began — back when the world bid adieu to Don Draper and people booked stays at The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. They took a spirit ride down to the slower states when they…

Video Game Review: The Conjuring House

Horror video games love abandoned and haunted mansions. Be it the Spencer Mansion from Resident Evil or the Barrows Mansion from Clock Tower, this creepy and confined setting feels right at home in the horror genre. For RYM Games’ (an…