Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real was an official selection at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival, and quite possibly one of the...
Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night was the sleeper hit of the 2019 Overlook Film Festival. While the film celebrated...
87.5%
Going into a movie blind is my favorite way to discover a film. Nowadays, we carry spoiler boxes in our back pocket – making blind discovery a rare occurrence. We’re so inundated with tweets, reactions, and feedback to films that haven’t even come out yet, it seems some of us...
82.5%
Porno is an absolutely hilarious little movie from director Keola Racela about a group of born-again Christian teens under the spell...
The campfire is lit, marshmallows are toasting, and there’s a chill in the air. You and your friends hush to...
Tucked between the groundbreaking documentaries and independent features that always come to the Tribeca Film Festival are a series of short films that defy any sense of normalcy. Branded the ‘genre’ section of Tribeca’s short film menu, these small masterpieces explore humanity in ways that only science-fiction, horror, and fantasy...
92.5%
Of all the species of monsters out there, the plant-based kind is especially overlooked. To me, that’s a travesty. I...
Not a lot happens in a place like Harburg, Pennsylvania. Life moves at a slow pace, very little ever changes,...
77.5%
A unique achievement of crowdfunded filmmaking, The Unthinkable is an indie disaster movie with the feel of a big budget Hollywood production. But the Swedish film has a character-driven story and surprisingly slow burn pace that speaks to its Scandinavian sensibilities. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it...
79%
It’s rare for a film to completely throw you for a loop, becoming an experience beyond anything you expected. I...
Knock Knock… It’s the oldest joke in the book, but still one to illicit a reaction from the person answering...
70%
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It only took one film for comedy veteran Jordan Peele to become Horror’s darling. Get Out catapulted him into an overnight sensation; turning heads and ticket sales, with hushed voices whispering “the new Hitchcock” to any uninformed earhole. The film also created a seat at the table for Peele – and...
