Two competing cleaners reluctantly have to partner up for a job in Wolfs. District attorney Margaret (Amy Ryan) panics when the Kid (Austin Abrams) she brought up to her hotel room seemingly drops dead. In desperation, Margaret calls a cleaner (George Clooney) to help resolve this problem. However, Margaret’s Man is shocked by the arrival […]

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 […]

Chefs and researchers explore insects as a culinary option in Bugs. With the population of the world expected to surpass 9 billion by 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has recommended that edible insects become an alternative to livestock as a sustainable source of protein. Josh Evans, Ben Reade and Roberto Flore are […]

Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) is a stand-up comedian, who finds herself suddenly dumped by her boyfriend, who admitted to cheating on her.  As a rebound to the break-up, Donna has a one night stand with Max (Jake Lacy) and finds herself pregnant as a result.  Donna decides to have an abortion, which happens to be […]

The Austrian sci-fi/horror film The Station focuses on a team of scientists on a Climate Research Base in the German Alps. Lead by Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), the team discovers a blood-like red liquid coming out of a nearby glacier. It turns out that this liquid contains a single-celled organism, which infects local wildlife, developing into […]

For this month’s blindspot film, I am choosing a release that is only three years old.  I highly regretted missing out on the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man when it was released in 2009, especially after the film went on to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.  I suppose that I missed out on […]

I never really knew too much about the latest film by Clint Eastwood other than it featured Matt Damon as someone who can communicate with the dead. It turns out that this is only one of three stories that the film tells, all of which are joined by the theme of death.  I personally thought […]

Oliver Stone did an interesting thing with this biopic of president George W. Bush. While he could have have took the opportunity to trash than man for his many bad decisions in the White House, the film instead takes a sympathetic view at Bush’s life. The main plot involves the actions leading into and directly […]

When I go to my semi-regular independent film viewings, I usually never know much about the film I am going to see. I just see what’s playing, watch the trailers, and watch a film that seems intriguing. That’s how I decided to see The Visitor. This film has a very low-key cast, with the only […]