There are some people that may argue that we are living in the dark ages of film, but there is no doubt that we are living in the golden age of film restoration. From the sleaziest of B-horror movies to true art house gems, there has been no shortage of rediscovered and beautifully restored films. [...]

In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, there were plenty of pandemic movies to enjoy where the world would be utterly devastated by an unknown illness or disease. Though we haven't had a big pandemic release in quite a while, it would make sense that one would creep up with the increasing paranoia of [...]

Anyone who has ever worked Lyft, Uber, or a taxi can tell you that they've had some strange customers. Some people are just odd or eccentric, but a few can seem shady, even dangerous at times. There is something terrifying about picking up strangers and being in a position where if something does go wrong, [...]

In and outside of film the experience of helplessness is second to none in terms of horror. The Saw franchise created an entire empire of the experience of people grappling with helplessness or succumbing to it with grislier results with each installment.  However, not all situations of helplessness come from an unhinged engineer or a psycho in [...]

One of the major issues in politics for a good while has been immigration and an increase in illegal immigrants. There are many Americans who see immigrants as a blight while still enjoying the cheap labor they provide, some even abusing the fact that they are undocumented. The film  Beneath Us explores the struggles of [...]

It is weird and honestly unsettling to think that most films in the tricking the person with amnesia into being with me genre are romantic. Considering we live in a world that warns about gaslighting and promotes having a healthy level of skepticism directed at the news, one would think that these movies would be [...]

It is never fun watching a movie do so many things right and still fail. In the same way as seeing the world's most masterful frame on a hideous painting, there is only so much that one can improve the other. The shot has been filmed in an artistically unique way, the sound design is [...]