A thinking person’s horror film, Bright Hill Road starts out with a brutal workplace shooting, leading to a desperate attempt by alcoholic HR manager Marcy to get away from it all. She’s losing grip on herself, and her choice not to take the mass shooter’s threats when she fired him the week prior seriously cost…

The story of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi will hit you like a ton of bricks in this breathtaking, earth-shattering documentary. Writer-director Bryan Fogel — who found amazing success after Olympic doping film Icarus — details the disappearance and murder of the journalist at the consulate in Instanbul. Considered an enemy of the state in…

Call me a hopeless romantic, but there’s something splendid about the feeling I get from a rom-com done right. Stars Fell On Alabama never purports to be anything than a cheesy, adorable flick about falling in love and Southern charm. And by those — admittedly low — standards, it succeeds. This cliche flick about Hollywood…

This gut-wrenching story of the disintegration of a marriage following a tragic child-birth is one of the most difficult films I’ve ever seen. When a home birth ends in the child’s death, a young couple struggle to keep it together as they yearn to move on with their lives. Director Kornél Mundruczó creates an entrancing,…

The thing about Emperor, a strictly inoffensive, by-the-book film about slave on the run Shields Green, is that it never seems to match its subject matter with competency. One is left with a wanting feeling, especially given Green’s purported encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. But perhaps that’s because Showtime series Good Lord Bird…

Every once in a while comes a movie so concerned with being a stylish, colourful Sin City knock-off that it forgets the best thing about that film. It also had substance and knew the type of pulpy film it was. And yet, with underground fight film Knuckledust, we’re given no smarts to go with our…

Set against the absolutely beautiful Harlem in the late 1950’s, Sylvie’s Love should and could be magical. It settles for charming, and that’s alright, but I wish a bit more went into this screenplay. When a woman working for her father’s record story meets an aspiring saxophonist, the two become inextricably linked across time. They…

This latest Pixar offering is a wondrous, beautiful picture that you won’t soon forget. Soul has energy to spare, and it’s an evocative, human story. A down-on-his-luck music teacher who moonlights as a failing musician is transported out of his body after a heart attack, and desperately finds a way to get back and reclaim…

While George Clooney’s gorgeous, dystopian Midnight Sky won’t win any Academy Awards for the well-regarded auteur, this is a piece of entertainment that discerning adults should see as soon as possible. Clooney directs this tale of a post-apocalyptic future where Augustine – a scientist slowly dying – finds a small girl in the deserted station…

When good directors make bad films, it’s not that we’re mad. Reviewers like me, well, we’re just disappointed. We expected better. In the case of Oscar winner John Patrick Shanley’s new Irish romance Wild Mountain Thyme, it just never comes together, even though it seems he’s spent a hell of a lot of time finding…