Michael Talbot-Haynes

What enriches this film’s frothy concoction is its strong intellectual underpinnings. The questions raised about how social media has increased public persona versus private interactions carry a lot of weight.

Rub comes out of nowhere and reinforces your belief in the magic of independent filmmaking.

Peter Case: A Million Miles Away is an eye-opening portrait of an unsung songwriting powerhouse.

The story remains rooted in the outlaw couple on the run subgenre of crime film, but it then metamorphoses into an entirely different type of category. It has humor, but it is not a comedy, as the delivery and intent is coming from somewhere else.

Stripping the glory from gangsterism like chrome from a tailpipe is the pulse-pounding documentary Man On The Run, written and directed by Cassius Michael Kim.

It will be interesting to see when the mainstream catches up to the street action of underground slashers. It seems there is an unquenched need for bleeding out there. If you see The Patrolman, you best pull over cause it will cave your head in.

The cameras keep it lively, surfing on the laser waves of music. How they kept from falling off the roof is a mystery.

The leads not only hold everything together, but they also hoist it all up in the air and twirl it around their heads. Gordon shows the richness of his comedic side; his bewilderment is infectious. Way anchors the audience’s perspective in his portrayal of what I took as a cowboy from Sweden. Gladstone is the standout. She holds a power as a western hero that creates a palpable humming sensation up your arms.

Night Shift is an impeccably crafted, clever ghost infestation that has a lot going on under the sheets.

Lee Fields: Faithful Man shows that this planet is an even groovier place than we thought. You sometimes just need to hang in long enough to find out.

The degree of ruthlessness that is achieved is stunning, as the skin of the nightmare of the assassination trade is pulled back.

This is everything you could ever want from a yoga horror movie. It also expands the boundaries of what the genre can achieve.

It is informative and inspiring, with Sill’s spirit summoned for all to see. It is a great piece of lost classic rock history that so many will relish. It’s the kind of film that buries itself in your ribcage and keeps glowing for days afterward.

Yes, it is still the frenzy over the shoes that has stood the test of time and will be what will draw a wide audience to this movie. However, I think many will be just as impressed if not more so with the man himself.

Roots of Fire has the power to make you a fan of Cajun music for life, while also (maybe) making you more of a fan of life itself.

While a rock doc on the surface, Resynator showcases all the conflicting nuances of reality with higher clarity than previous documentaries. Here we see the real life we live in, where everything is both so cool and completely sucks at the same time. We also get to explore how a person’s conception of an absent parent affects the architecture of their self-identity. It is fascinating to see how, as different mysteries are solved, it affects Tavel.

The whole picture trades in the type of exotica that is fundamentally linked with the Arabian Nights stories, which melds amazingly well with the sci-fi tropes employed. The strategic use of location shots abroad, perhaps on a vacation, hides the fact that most of this was shot in Michigan, which is truly impressive.

Life As A B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli is an endless feast for hardcore Italian film fans, but it’s also a fantastic introduction for newcomers to the wonderful world of Italian genre filmmaking.

Zombie Strain is the THC-heavy zombie jamboree your lungs have been waiting for.

The way the musicians describe the happiness they get from playing, as well as hearing great playing, will make your heart feel; it is moving.

It’s All Gonna Break is a labor of love that simply doesn’t know how to share the devotion with the uninitiated.

Daydreamers is the kind of high cinematic art that you fall in love with as it rips your throat out.

Go follow this Trail of Vengeance, as it will turn your dull, dark evening blood red with delight.

Monk In Pieces is a showstopper for the woman who stopped all of our preconceptions of what a show could be. It is achingly brilliant and needs to be stampeded to immediately in the direction of your choice.

Inthralled is a truly vicious work of art in a brown paper wrapper, just watch your fingers once it is open, as it has bite.

With these performances and Thom Mills’s confident direction, Luderdale plants its flag firmly in gangster movie territory. For fans of mob films, this is an instant classic. It’s stylish, gritty, and ends with a bang that will leave you face down in your pasta bowl, begging for more.

Even if you don’t care for saddles and sagebrush much, you are going to want to cowboy up for this one. It is an acid flashback wearing spurs. If you go out of your way for that old-school cool adult animation, slide right on over to Slide. It is another example of why Bill Plympton will always be one of the greatest animators of all time.

A New Love In Tokyo does for sex workers what The Sopranos does for the mafia: it shows what the people behind the jobs are like. I wished I hadn’t missed it the first time and relished this opportunity to finally see it.