In Resurrection, a mother desperately tries to keep her past life from spilling into her present as an old figure walks back in to her life Resurrection premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It is seeking U.S. distribution. Halfway through Resurrection, there’s a 10-minute scene where Margaret (Rebecca Hall) recounts a traumatic period of…
Three Black women navigate the horrors — both real and supernatural — of working and attending a predominently white institution in Master Master is playing at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released on Prime Video in March. The most horrifying scene in Master, the feature debut of director Mariama Diallo, takes place…
In Last Night in Soho, an aspiring fashion designer escapes her drab London life by transporting by to the 1960s and inhabiting an aspiring singer. But eventually dreams become nightmares. Edgar Wright is anything but subtle in his filmmaking and storytelling. When asked, “how much?” he answers with a resounding, “yes!” — and that’s typically…
The Guilty follows a suspended police officer working 911 dispatch who falls upon an abduction case that he becomes determined to solve The Guilty is a tense, innovative, and constantly twisting police procedural that unfolds in real-time and solely through phone calls to incredible effect. However, it elevates itself by also acting as a character…
In M. Night Shyamalan's Old a group of vacationers become trapped on an isolated beach where time is sped up and everyone is aging rapidly Old is a weird psychological body horror that’ll divide audiences. The odd tone of that film makes for an interesting B-horror movie that either you'll love, hate, or love to hate.…
A doctor and a park ranger venture into the forest to find a research hub that went quiet in In the Earth. However, after a run-in with a stranger, they get more than they bargained for. In the Earth is a hypnotic, psychedelic, and anxiety-inducing assault on the senses that invokes comparisons to the best…
The titular Promising Young Woman spends her nights baiting male predators into taking her home with them and teaching them a lesson they'll never forget Promising Young Woman balances its serious subject matter with a darkly comedic tone and satisfyingly entertaining revenge narrative that feels like a centerpiece of the #MeToo era. Add in a…
A resourceful teen who is wheelchair-bound begins to suspect that her mother is hiding a deeply-buried secret from her in Run, streaming on Hulu A couple of heart-pounding sequences of suspense and two terrific lead performances by Sarah Paulson and Kiera Allen are enough to keep Run moving, but its predictable twists end up kneecapping…
I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a twisting psychological thriller about a couple road-tripping during a snowstorm to meet their parents I'm Thinking of Ending Things combines a darkly comedic tone with a bleak atmosphere to make for a haunting portrait of a relationship on the rocks. ▶ Streaming on Netflix Loneliness is a prison.…
Netflix's Rebecca, which follows in the footsteps of Hitchcock's 1940 classic, follows a young woman who walks in the shadow of her new husband's late wife Rebecca is gloriously filmed and impeccably designed, but beneath all of the polish of its grand mansion setting is an empty house filled with nothing but empty rooms and…
