Hatching (2022) – Review/ Summary
Best described as coming-of-age body horror, Hatching is just as much about the monster as an independent thing as its connection to the lead.
Movies
Discover our top picks and latest reviews spanning from blockbuster hits to indie films, shorts, and festival premieres across various platforms.
Bubble (2022) – Review/ Summary
Bubble is an absolutely beautiful movie to look at, with a very simple plot and set of characters.
Crush (2022) – Review/ Summary
Combined with Heartstopper, Crush gives you all the butterflies you need if you want a quality romance to watch, especially if you want same-sex couples.
Pompo: The Cinephile – Review/ Summary
Pompo The Cinephile is an ode to anyone who has a dream who sacrificed for it, and were ready to settle when they thought their dream was soon to die.
365 Days: This Day (365 DNI: Ten Dzien) – Review/ Summary
Once again a toxic and tumultuous romance is mixed in with a weak mob story to deliver what, at best, is like the soft-core porn HBO and Cinemax show late at night.
The Northman (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Blood, honor, love, and betrayal keep you engaged for over 2 hours in this epic revenge tale.
Choose or Die (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Choose or Die is the kind of pseudo-horror that has a better story buried beneath what it gives you.
Dual (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Dual is a bizarre dark comedy with the kind of dry humor that will either make you laugh or go “What the f***?” if not both!
As They Made Us (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
As They Made Us is an ode to children with complicated relationships with their parents, who stuck by them even when they knew, and were told they shouldn’t.
The Devil You Know (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
For nearly two hours, you are left with not only the mystery of who did what, but who will pay for the crime?
Moonshot (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Moonshot is your run-of-the-mill, improbable romance that is fun to watch and easy to forget.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Between depression, various “What if?” scenarios, and relationships in disrepair, it is all presented in the sometimes overwhelming Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Moon Manor (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Moon Manor is a beautiful, quirky film that discusses the serious topic of death in a way that still manages to be lighthearted and comedic.
Expired (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Expired will likely be one of the most dreary films you could ever see that didn’t involve watching someone be traumatized.
The Lost City (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this action/adventure comedy, Sandra Bullock finds someone new to play the fool to her straight man character, as she goes from novelist to adventurer.
Umma (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While you must applaud Umma for being a mainstream movie that talks about various aspects of Korean culture, sadly, it is a lukewarm horror film.
The Outfit (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
As it presents a wonderful mob who did it story, The Outfit puts all its weight behind Mark Rylance, who absolutely kills it!
X (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
X is everything you expect as you go from sex scenes to watching people get mutilated and then find yourself immensely uncomfortable.
Adam By Eve: A Live In Animation (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In what sometimes feels like a series of intros and outros to various anime, we watch the musician ever perform as multiple interlacing stories about a one-eyed being are explored.
Blink (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
This short release by Sony, alongside giving us another notable performance from Sophie Thatcher, also pushes you to hope more shorts might be released on Sony’s channel.
The Adam Project (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
What might be sold as a sci-fi action-adventure, with Ryan Reynolds™ styled comedy, is really a tear-inducing family drama.
The Weekend Away (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this mystery, things twist and turn, and as our lead starts to figure things out, you question why is she confronting the person where she can be the next victim?
The Batman (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Once again, Batman has been rebooted but rather than waste time on Bruce’s origin story, it focuses on who you’re really here for – the villains.
Family Squares (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Family Squares is the kind of film which will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even call your family – including members who get on your last nerve.
No Exit (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Utilizing its small cast, No Exit is an often intense film to watch, which leaves you to wonder who may make it out alive.
A Madea Homecoming (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Tyler Perry revives Madea, and while comical, it may make you miss when he was adapting his plays rather than making original Madea movies.
UFO (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
UFO is one of the rare TV-MA young adult romances from Netflix that doesn’t seem to rely on lust but rather love to get you to stick around.
Don’t Kill Me (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Don’t Kill Me is sparse on details to the point of wondering if something was lost in translation.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
If you love bloody, disgusting, gory, just straight-up violent horror movies? Netflix’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has you covered.
Fistful of Vengeance (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Even if you didn’t watch Wu Assassin in 2019, you could easily pick up what Fistful of Vengeance wants you to get – a whole lot of stylized fight scenes.
Heart Shot (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Heart Shot feels like a cruel tease of a show or film Netflix should have financed already.
Help (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Help does make you raise an eyebrow about what’s going on, I wouldn’t say the ending gives you the payoff you desire.
Student Body (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Student Body is bloody, vulgar, and ridiculous. But whether or not it is in the best way? That’s hard to say.
Until We Meet Again (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Until We Meet Again is a little bit all over the place. Mainly due to how it plays with the different genres it pursues.
I Want You Back (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
I Want You Back may not present top-tier comedy or romance, but its exploration of the value placed on relationships is where it shines.
Moonfall (2022) – Recap/Review (with Spoilers)
Moonfall is a popcorn film full of dumb fun – the moon falls (and that’s not even the craziest part), things get spectacularly destroyed, and the US tries to nuke the moon (of course they do).
Kimi (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Kimi is a meek thriller that doesn’t fully tap into the role of listening devices or the people who troubleshoot the AI behind them.
Single Black Female (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Single Black Female delivers on the story, performances and madness you expect.
Through My Window (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Through My Window has your usual toxic, brooding, and handsome male lead, there is just enough given to the viewer to get past the trope.
