Martha: A Picture Story (2019 | Australia | 82 minutes | Selina Miles) Everyone’s a photographer now. And thanks to our cell …
Author: Tony Kay
The Mimic aims for absurdist screwball heights
The Mimic (2021 | USA | 82 minutes | Thomas F. Mazziotti) The Mimic doesn’t feel very much like a modern movie, …
I Blame Society brings on the gruesome giggles
I Blame Society (2021 | USA | 85 minutes | Gillian Wallace Horvat) Dark times tend to give birth to dark comedies. …
Sator embraces the unknown and the unanswerable
Sator (2020 | USA | 86 minutes | Jordan Graham) Mark Twain offered one of the most cogent pieces of advice on creating …
Scares and Statements Co-exist in Hunted
Hunted (2020 | Belgium | 87 minutes | Vincent Paronnaud) Hunted, a brand-new thriller debuting on Shudder today, takes what could’ve been …
Tony’s Favorite Movies of 2020
Like most of you reading this, I spent a lot of 2020 sequestered in my place, watching movies. And while I didn’t …
There are Dire Consequences to Doing Anything for Jackson
Anything for Jackson (2020 | Canada | 97 minutes | Justin G. Dyck) Anything for Jackson begins with the most picturesque of …
The Romanian Film Festival Perseveres in 2020
I’ve been following the Romanian Film Festival for several years now, happily. It’s easily been one of the most worthwhile film fests …
On Stream and Blu-ray: Sleepless Beauty Paints a Pretty Ugly Picture
Sleepless Beauty (2020 | Russia | 84 minutes | Pavel Khvaleev) If Sleepless Beauty saw release two decades ago, its attempts at …
There’s Familiar Fun to be Had in Shortcut
Of the small handful of feature films that have been rolled out in theaters and drive-ins in recent weeks, Shortcut (which opens …