Directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Anti Matichak, Halloween Ends caps off the modern trilogy with a twist on the long-running franchise. When audiences back in 1978 first saw Halloween and experienced Michael Myers in all his gory glory, I bet they weren’t thinking that this movie would transform into a series that would still be going 44 years later. In that span of time, we got to watch the journey of Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode as she grapples with the trauma of that horrific Halloween night that would change her life forever. And although this ..read more

Up until this point, there have been numerous films and documentaries centered around the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and how it ignited a crucial wave for the civil rights movement leading into the tumultuous 1960s. This latest film, simply titled Till, is Chinonye Chukwu’s follow-up to the acclaimed Clemency, and it repackages the well-known story of Till’s brutal, senseless, and irredeemably racist murder into a streamlined and focused tale about generational Black justice told from the perspective of Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Jalyn Hall (Space Jam: A New Legacy) pla ..read more

Amsterdam is a new period comedy thriller written, directed, and produced by David O. Russell. Released through 20th Century Studios. You can also listen to this article by using the player above. At their best, David O. Russell’s movies will revel in their mayhem. They’re infused with the tenaciousness and/or thunderousness of their unsettled characters, and the director’s spirited filmmaking often complements their rambunctious energy. Certainly, Three Kings effectively captures the mania and the macho hysterics of an ever-senseless war, while The Fighter demonstrates the bullish bravado th ..read more

Tár is one of those rare films about a specific art that just about anyone watching it can embrace, even if they have no connection or previous knowledge of the art itself beyond a vague familiarity. In this case, the specific art is conducting, where a single person directs the musical performance of an entire orchestra. Now, you don’t have to know a single thing about conducting and all its modern politics in order to appreciate what Tár is after as a film. Because the art of conducting is besides the point. It’s a backdrop, a low hum, painting the film’s sharp allegory about the people who ..read more

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s story by Bernard Waber. Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Office Christmas Party) and written by William Davies (Puss in Boots). It would be an insanely difficult task to find a movie out there without any sort of cliche. It just kind of comes with the territory. It’s not a bad thing, not at all. A film sometimes needs a good cliche to let the audience know that the story they’re getting is a familiar one. And that in and of itself isn’t always a terrible thing, no matter what your film snob roommate might tell ..read more

At one point in Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Medusa, a girl mentions that women whose names started with the letter M tended to be malicious in character. She listed Mary Magdalene and Messalina as the prime examples, two women who were known—and hated— for their sexuality. In Greek mythology, the gorgon Medusa may have been known for having snakes in her hair and her stone-turning gaze, but another interpretation is that she was a maiden who was turned into a demon by Athena after being raped by Poseidon. It’s a tragic retelling that depicts women punishing other women for not practicing ch ..read more

In the entertainment industry, sequels and prequels are typically conceived to continue the hype of a franchise and keep interest up. Another rather important reason for this is the actors involved in key roles might age out between projects, become to expensive as popularity increases, or could possibly choose not to return after so long. And the horror genre needs to keep things cheap. One such horror movie, Orphan, came out in the summer of 2009 with typical reactions as expected to the genre at the time: critics hated it, and fans loved it. Now, a little over thirteen years later ..read more

By the end of 2021, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest experienced its highest rate of deforestation in 15 years. Recent data suggests that there are signs of a loss of resilience in more than 75% of the forest. If nothing is done to stop it, it’s expected that the ecosystem of the Amazon could collapse within the next 50 years. This crisis affects the whole world, but it especially harms indigenous communities in the area, who not only face the potential destruction of their home, but also the erasure of their way of living. This is the backdrop of National Geographic and Picturehouse’s latest d ..read more

Leah Purcell is the writer, director, and star of The Legend of Molly Johnson, playing a woman who must protect herself and her children from the harsh hazards of life in the 1890s Australian bush. While this is Purcell’s first narrative feature film as writer/director, it’s not her first time playing this character or telling this story – she previously adapted it (from Henry Lawson’s short story The Drover’s Wife) as a stage play in which she starred, and then as a novel. Purcell’s project here is revisionist on a storytelling level, giving a name and specific Aboriginal ethnicity ..read more

In a world where studio blockbusters bend over backwards to try and craft cinematic universes, crack way too many jokes and push the boundaries of visual effects, it’s really nice to just have a summer movie where Idris Elba squares off against an evil lion. Beast, the latest from reliable icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is a lean, mean, lion-fighting machine, the kind of cheesy-yet-engrossing popcorn thriller that used to dominate the multiplex. It’s not a film you can really wax poetic about, but it’s hard not to romanticize a movie that just stays so gloriously in its lane and deliver ..read more