Reviews

[ND/NF Review] Fort Buchanan

To the right crowd, there are a lot of familiar faces in Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan, a look into the life of a number of mostly-sexually frustrated army sp...

[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...