Every week, all kinds of new content lands on Netflix without much fanfare. Like a tree falling in the woods, if there isn't a pandemic to keep us all home, does anyone notice? Now that we are home, the streaming service is serving up plenty worth checking out, from a trippy limited series about big ...
Archives for March 2020
Review: Crip Camp
If you know nothing at all about it, a film with the title Crip Camp might not immediately jump to the top of your Netflix queue. Rest assured, it should. An official selection at January’s Sundance Film Festival (back when there were such things as film festivals), the ...
Review: Bacurau
As the film industry, like the rest of us, grapples with how to move forward in the midst of a global pandemic, studios that had plans to release new films to now-closed movie theaters in the next several weeks have had to rethink things. Some are pushing the films back by months, sometimes an ...
Review: Swallow
Believe it or not, there is a mini-genre of independent films that center around women eating…weird shit. As riveting as it is disturbing, 2016’s Raw centers on sisters at a veterinary school who acquire a taste for human flesh after a very intense hazing ritual. After a respectable film ...
Review: Extra Ordinary
Heading to the movie theater might not be at the top of your list of Things To Do This Weekend, and it's understandable if so. If, however, you're more of the "measured-but-cautious" ilk and haven't let recent public health concerns overly impact your day-to-day life, heading out to catch Extra ...