Movie review by Greg Carlson Third-year psychology student Emily (Angourie Rice), an American abroad at the fictional Manchester City University, alights on what she thinks will be the perfect case study to complete her psychology thesis project: musician/sound engineer Owen (Spike Fearn), chasing after another Emily he met briefly at the student union club where […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson An increasingly intimate relationship between a filmmaker and a reclusive horror actor commands our attention in “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” director Jane Schoenbrun’s highly anticipated follow-up to the much lauded “I Saw the TV Glow.” Schoenbrun’s latest, described by the artist in an interview with JP Mangalindan […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson David Robert Mitchell’s energizing dino-danger adventure “The End of Oak Street” descends upon us like a late-summer gift from the Hollywood heavens. If possible, go see it knowing nothing ahead of time and then come back to read the rest of this review. Mitchell’s fourth film as writer-director continues the […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Discussing the parameters, ramifications, and impossibilities of the absolutely outlandish premise of Will Gluck’s latest movie is nearly equal to the fun of gawping at the heavenly bodies of stars Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro as they work their way toward an inevitable rom-com resolution in “One Night Only.” Several […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Gregg Araki, New Queer Cinema legend and provocateur, now 66, brings some laughter and some pain to the kids who weren’t yet born when the Teenage Apocalypse trilogy shook up indie/outsider/DIY moviemaking back in the 1990s (where does the time go?). “I Want Your Sex,” which ends a dozen-year drought […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson The movies love to dramatize, to one degree or another, the struggles of mental illness. Major studios are frequently seduced by the prestige potential of both fiction and nonfiction bestsellers on the topic that dangle the possibilities of award season accolades and even Oscar gold. More often than not, those […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Working from a script by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, Olivia Wilde puts her own stamp on Cesc Gay’s play “Los vecinos de arriba,” which Gay made as a 2020 film known in English as both “Sentimental” and “The People Upstairs.” The story, revolving around two neighbor couples who experience […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Functioning as a companion to David Shadrack Smith’s “Public Access,” the provocatively titled documentary “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story” educates viewers with a history lesson covering the wild high seas of a bygone era of personal media-making through the eyes of one colorful veteran and pioneer. Long before […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Alex Ross Perry follows his excellent “Pavements” by tackling the essay film with “Videoheaven,” a nearly 3-hour long analysis of the rise and fall of brick and mortar movie rental. Stimulating and satisfying for both older connoisseurs and curious cinephiles too young to have experienced the heyday of either mom-and-pop […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Viewers who come to “Supergirl” without the experience of having read the extraordinary, self-contained, 8-issue Eisner-nominated series by Tom King and Bilquis Evely might mistake director Craig Gillespie’s adaptation for just another installment in the almost automated line of big budget spectacles breathing screen life into the most popular DC […]