A 93-year-old woman goes on a vengeful journey after she’s conned out of $10,000 in Thelma. Thelma Post (June Squibb) is a 93-year-old woman still getting used to living on her own following the death of her husband two years earlier, often receiving help for menial tasks from her grandson Danny (Fred Hechinger). Thelma gets […]

An anxiety-ridden man tries to make it home for his mother’s funeral in Beau is Afraid. Beau Wassermann (Joaquin Phoenix) is a middle-aged man who lives on his own, often afraid to venture out into the world around him. Beau regularly visits his therapist (Stephen McKinley Henderson) to talk about his anxieties, often involving his […]

Animated reenactments are used to tell the mostly true story of an eccentric genius in Nuts! In 1917, Dr. John Romulus Brinkley discovered that he can cure impotence through a very unconventional method – the transplant of goat testicles. This begins a very eccentric and bizarre story, which sees Brinkley get in fights against the American Medical […]

Filmmaker Hal Hartley concludes his trilogy of films about the Grim family with Ned Rifle.  Labelled a terrorist by the media, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is sentenced to life in prison.  Shortly afterwards, her son Ned Rifle (Liam Aiken), who has been living under witness protection with a reverend and his family, decides to search […]

Before I continue with the review, I should make a correction from yesterday’s Movies of the Moment post. I said that The Eye was the latest J-Horror remake, when it actually the remake of a Hong Kong horror film. That said, the Asian influence wasn’t as evident in this film as films like The Ring […]