Review: Irreverent (2022)

After a peace talk he’s mediated goes bloodily wrong, Mafia fixer Paulo (Colin Donnell) finds himself on the run with a large chunk of illicit cash, a bullet wound in his shoulder, and the potentially terminal...

Review: Poker Face (2022)

Let’s get the poker pun out of the way first. There have been plenty of column inches lately devoted to the story that Russell Crowe went all-in on his second directorial effort, Poker Face. He took over the r...

Review: Werewolf by Night (2022)

It’s a dark and stormy night in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and five of the world’s greatest monster hunters have gathered at Bloodstone Manor at the behest of Verussa Bloodstone (Harriet Sansom Harris) on ...

Review: The Missed by Sami Shah

Full disclosure: I'm friendly with Sami Shah. I first interviewed him for X-Press Magazine back in the day when he was a recent immigrant doing his visa-mandated time in Northam, a tiny Western Australian coun...

Review: Barbarian (2022)

It’s a dark and stormy night, and Tess Marshall (Georgina Campbell) is in rustbelt Detroit for a job interview. She’s booked a house in a nigh-derelict neighborhood through an Airbnb-type service, and the well...

Review: The Stranger (2022)

On a long-haul bus trip speeding through the benighted countryside, ex-con Henry (Sean Harris) makes small talk with a stranger named Paul (Steve Mouzakis). It’s evident they both hail from the criminal milieu...