Screen Reviews

Our writers scour the globe, rewind endless tapes, and press pause as many times as it takes to bring you the ultimate collection of film, broadcast, and streaming visual content to feed your endless appetite for movies.

The Sparks Brothers

The Sparks Brothers

Screen Reviews

The Sparks Brothers is director Edgar Wright’s (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead) long awaited documentary on Ron and Russell Mael’s legendary musical outlet, Sparks, which has released over 25 albums during their career. Generoso reviews the film fresh from its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Pizza – A Love Story

Pizza – A Love Story

Screen Reviews

New Haven CT. Makes a pretty sound argument it’s pizza is better than New York or Chicago. And Detroit? Please. Have some respect.

Exam

Exam

Screen Reviews

Young Farjid has an exam, but dad wants her to deliver a package and pick up some cash. You can guess the rest.

Guitar Man

Guitar Man

Screen Reviews

He’s the best-selling artist on the Billboard Blues charts, and most people don’t know his name. Who is Joe Bonamassa? Guitar Man tells you that story.

Dahmer

Dahmer

Screen Reviews

A biopic of Jeffery Dahmer, Milwaukee’s most famous mass murderer. Not for the faint of heart.

Wyrm

Wyrm

Screen Reviews

Welcome to a retro future world where everyone wears an electronic dog collar until their first sexual experience. Making out counts.

Uncle Peckerhead

Uncle Peckerhead

Screen Reviews

Maybe getting a roadie from a creepy van isn’t the best idea, but then again having a cannibal driving your tour bus can smooth out a lot of little issues.

Herb Alpert Is…

Herb Alpert Is…

Screen Reviews

This biopic follows Herb Alpert’s rise to the top of the music world, and his life time of continued success.

Silent Running

Silent Running

Screen Reviews

The early ’70s cult classic Silent Running gets major upgrade from Arrow Video.

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy

Screen Reviews

With just a few short days before Christmas in Glasgow, morning drive time disc jockey, Alan “Dickie” Bird finds himself caught in the middle of an absurd ice cream war in Bill Forsyth’s masterful 1984 comedy, Comfort and Joy. Generoso reviews this underrated gem which he holds dear as his all-time favorite holiday film.

Fully Realized Humans

Fully Realized Humans

Screen Reviews

Josh and Jesse are expecting their first baby. A rain of useful helpful advice nearly smothers them, until they have to start changing diapers.

Best of Film 2020

Best of Film 2020

Screen Reviews

Lily and Generoso select and review their ten favorite features, five supplemental films, and prized repertory releases of 2020.

The Deeper You Dig

The Deeper You Dig

Screen Reviews

Guerrilla filmmaking at its best by the Adams family on his haunting tale of karmic retribution.

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Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

Screen Reviews

John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.

The Eye

The Eye

Screen Reviews

What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.

Chapterhouse

Chapterhouse

Interviews

With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.