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Sundance Film Festival: The Musical Doesn’t Dare to Explore Its Inner Dark Side

@Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The First feature-film directed by Giselle Bonilla is a dark comedy focused on Doug (Will Brill), a middle-school teacher and wanna-be playwright, that turns into exploring his dark side when he finds out his ex-girlfriend and colleague Abigail (Gillian Jacobs) is dating the school’s principal Brady (Rob Lowe). Which could…

’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review – What a fun, highly-crafted rollercoaster!

@Courtesy of Sony Pictures There are two sequences that stand out in this sequel directed by Nia DaCosta, and both are basically duels. The first one is merely aesthetic, a beautifully crafted clash between the penetrating blue eyes of Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and the red, crazy eyes of the Alpha Zombie (Chi Lewis-Parry). The…

“Is This Thing On?” Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

©Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early…

‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Delivers, Lynne Ramsay Doesn’t…

@Courtesy of MUBI Among the several masterpieces that Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes realized together, A Woman Under the Influence (1974) set the bar about portraying the psychological and emotional difficulties of a woman confined in often suffocating social roles of wife, mother or housewife. The truth and intensity which that movie was able to…

One Battle After Another: Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

©Courtesy of Warner Bothers I’ve been following Paul Thomas Anderson’s career from square one. My friend’s and I rented Sydney (I know they named it Hard Eight, but I still call it Sydney), when it his video stores shelves. Whether we were rolling on the floor laughing at a matchbook spontaneously combust in John C….

The Naked Gun: Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

Check Out More of Our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman  In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn his…

I Know What You Did Last Summer: Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early…

28 Years Later: Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

©Courtesy of Columbia Pictures When it was released in 2002, 28 Days later was revolutionary. Though it is a movie about infected individuals and not zombies, it was instrumental in reviving a horror sub-genre. And while it was scary and horrifying, it was a beast all of its own; not your typical scary movie. And,…

‘Materialists’ Review: It’s So Different from ‘Past Lives’ But It’s Still So Genuine…

@Courtesy of A24 After the surprising (but totally deserved) success of Past Lives, Celine Song returns with another movie that confirms how she is capable of talking about our present days and their contradictions, even if she decided to go in a (almost) completely different direction. If her first feature film (Academy Award nominations for…

‘Wolf Man’ Video Review – Above the Line vs. Below the Line Episode 48

In 2020, Saw and Insidious co-creator Leigh Whannell created on a new take of The Invisible Man with Elisabeth Moss, and for his follow-up, Whannell is back with Wolf Man, another film that pays tribute to another classic Universal horror monster.  In the film, Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) plays Blake, a man who has to…

‘Smile 2 ‘ Video Review: Above the Line vs Below the Line Episode 45

Parker Finn’s high-concept horror film, Smile, was a huge global blockbuster back in 2022, grossing over $217 million worldwide, so it made sense that Paramount Pictures would want a sequel. Sure enough, Finn’s Smile 2 brings the smiling curse back but with a whole new cast and story. Naomi Scott (Aladdin) plays troubled pop star…