Sadie is a coming-of-age drama that turns corners before positioning itself in an unconventional, but also unsettling place. Written and directed by Megan Griffiths, the film is a bit manipulative in that asks you to sympathize, feel for, and root…
Movie Review: The Belko Experiment
The Belko Experiment poses an interesting question – if you had to, which co-worker of yours would you feel most okay about killing? We live in a moral gray area that says logically picking these people out seems like the…
Movie Review: Hush
If there’s anything that makes Hollywood salivate uncontrollably, it’s the thought of a cheaply made, rushed to market horror flick. Take recent “worst film of the year” contender The Other Side of the Door. It had lazy storytelling, one-dimensional characters and…
Movie Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane
J.J. Abrams, you sneaky bastard. Once again you’ve thrown both film fans and the internet into a frenzy by keeping details of yet another Bad Robot production secret from others. It all began in 2007 with the first teaser for Cloverfield,…
Ally’s Movie Review: The Heart Machine
The virtual relationship. Does a lack of space shared negate intimacy? Does intimacy require physical closeness? Following the relationship journey of two individuals, Cody (John Gallagher Jr.) and Virginia (Kate Lyn Sheil), we watch as they navigate the complications of…
Tyler’s Movie Review: Short Term 12
Every once and a while a film comes along where everything clicks, where the problems aren’t glaring, where the people in the film feel real, and halfway through, you notice that, subconsciously, you’ve been invested in nothing but what’s happening…