Reviews

[SXSW Review] We Are Still Here

Throwback horror film We Are Still Here never loses a sense of quiet fun running underneath it. Clearly a loving send-up to films of the past, writer-director T...

[SXSW Review] The Final Girls

Horror comedy has long been one of the most difficult genres mixes to pull off successfully. For The Final Girls, a high-concept meta riff on the slasher horror...

[Review] Insurgent

What’s left in the dystopia for audiences to discover? After The Hunger Games rejuvenated interest in a world broken at its very social foundations, turning on ...

[SXSW Review] One & Two

Low budgets don’t have to constrain a film, and a great example is the serene One & Two, which uses a small amount of locations and characters to bolster th...

[SXSW Review] Spy

You never knew you wanted an R-rated comedic take on the action spy genre until halfway through Spy and you're caught wondering why it has never been done quite...

[Review] The Gunman

With Taken director Pierre Morel at the helm and an accomplished actor who is hoping for his action breakthrough (Sean Penn), one can't fault The Gunman for sel...

[SXSW Review] Trainwreck

To be upfront, the version of Trainwreck I saw at SXSW was, like Neighbors and Bridesmaids in previous years, a work-in-progress. It hasn’t been locked and smal...

[SXSW Review] Ex Machina

Ex Machina doesn’t want to simply be another movie in the large pantheon of science-fiction cinema, but instead builds on what has come before and distills it i...

[SXSW Review] Deep Web

Alex Winter's new documentary Deep Web provides many unanswered questions the future will certainly shed light on soon. This is its point. While also giving a l...

[SXSW Review] 6 Years

The euphoria and anguish of first love has been captured in countless films, but few do it with the level of raw authenticity and intimacy as found in Hannah Fi...