In French Algeria, office clerk Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he stands accused of murdering an Arab man on the beach, indifference is his only alibi in François Ozon's fresh take on Albert Camus's classic novel of existentialist ennui.

He breaks through the curtains, like a superhero. He knows his lines, he hits his mark. His name is Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC, and since he's played in the compulsively watchable thriller Primeti...

Watch Backrooms on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom, leading to an endless network of interconnected rooms where time bends and t...

The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time it’s Toy meets Tech.

A vibrant and lightning-paced ode to female friendship and Filipino folklore, Forgotten Island is the latest from DreamWorks Animation, which has built an impressive resume in the 25 years since Shrek first hit theaters. While the animation quality of its primary competitor, Pixar, has gotten exponentially crisper and more detailed since their debut in the...

A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside

This week, Brent Leuthold and Keegan King join me to review Coyote vs. Acme in a feature review. Then we review the new Adam Wingard movie, Onslaught in this week’s secondary review. We also discuss Indianapolis movie events and recent movie and TV news, and more.

Set in the Depression-era Pacific Northwest, the new quasi-Western The Weight stacks the cards against its protagonist quite heavily in its opening moments. We're introduced to God-fearing mechanic Sa...

Watch Supergirl on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Headstrong, worldly-wise, and often reckless, Supergirl, cousin of Superman, undertakes an interstellar journey to save her dog Krypto from a r...

Between the surprise blockbuster Backrooms and the video game adaptation Exit 8, liminal horror has been all the rage this season and at summer's end, we get one more entry with It Ends. Though the so...

Woo!, Midwest Film Journal’s monthlong celebration of John Woo’s 80th birthday, continues with Brent Leuthold’s look back at 1996’s “Broken Arrow.”…

It's difficult to imagine the first two feature films in a director's filmography being as diverse as the initial pair from Oklahoma-based writer-director Andrew Patterson. His debut, The Vast Of Nigh...

On the surface, writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's first three features circulate around the era-specific screens in which characters lose themselves and find their way back out, transformed. We're All...

A staple of the '60s London art scene, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into seclusion. His estranged children enlist a forger (Michaela Coel), to access a series of Julian's unfinished canvase...

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Watch Mother Mary on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former co...

Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that will push them to extraordinary lengths. The film is Aleshea Harris' directorial debut and is based on Harris' adaptation of her award-winning play of the same name.

Adapted from the first couple chapters of Anthony Bourdain's incendiary memoir Kitchen Confidential, the new biopic Tony, about the culinary iconoclast's early years, could've been titled A Portrait O...

With fellow IFJA member Brent Leuthold, we explore the three-film legacy of Hoosier Hollywood icon James Dean: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant.

If one watches the opening minute of One Night Only without audio, it would be easy to wildly misconstrue its tone and intentions. Atop an aerial shot of the New York City skyline comes an overlay of ...

This week, Andy Carr and Brent Leuthold join me to review the new MCU film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day in a feature review. Then we review the AppleTV pickleball comedy, The Dink in this week’s secondary review. We also discuss Indianapolis movie events and recent news involving Paramount+’s Clueless limited series, Spider-Man’s record breaking opening weekend, Wonder Man’s cancellation, and more.

In the ten years that Spider-Man has officially been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney has certainly made the most of its agreement to share the rights for the seminal superhero with Son...

Watch The Drama on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star i...

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival two months ago, Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell represents the Danish filmmaker's return to the big screen after a ten-year detour developing streaming s...

After a series of misadventures, lifelong friends Matt and Jay continue their quest to book a gig at legendary venue, the Rivoli. This time, something goes horribly wrong and they accidentally travel ...

"Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this, he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity." So reads the chilling opening text of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's masterful...

Watch Obsession, a supernatural horror film where a hopeless romantic’s wish for love unleashes terrifying consequences. Stream on Peacock!

It's been too long since we last saw a theatrical release from comedic dynamo David Wain. Since the 2014 romcom-spoofing They Came Together, the writer/director has worked with Netflix to create a Dou...

In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again. With each kill, she grows addicted to the revenge str...

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Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge to save everything on Earth from extinction... but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

She may have stumbled (literally) into a cameo late in last year's excellent Superman but now, Supergirl is ready to soar into a feature of her own. Milly Alcock returns in Supergirl as Kal-El's young...

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This week, Brent Leuthold joins me to review the Pixar film, Toy Story 5 in a feature review. Then we review the Hulu comedy, Never Change! in this week’s secondary review. We also discuss recent news, Indianapolis movie events, and AI dumbassery.

When their beloved farmer is found dead under mysterious circumstances, a flock of the sheep conclude they will have to solve the murder themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn't as simple as it appears in books.

Ahead of Inside Out 2's release in 2024, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced, "We had gone through a period where our original films in animation, both Disney and Pixar, were dominating. We’re now swinging ...

Watch How to Make a Killing on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) will stop at nothing to reclaim his i...

A "Man From the Future" arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal thre...

In a time when the concepts of both "household names" and "event movies" are almost extinct, Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day represents something of a unicorn in popular culture. The olds may not be...

Watch They Will Kill You on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. A young woman must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult's mysterious and twisted death trap of a lair, before becoming thei...

After premiering in the Midnight Madness lineup of the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, the dazzling martial arts symposium The Furious is ready to blow the minds of the masses. Thanks t...

Psychologically, there will always be something unsettling about being alone in a large space intended to play host to activity that isn't happening and to people who aren't there. It's almost like th...

Cobbled together from a jettisoned fourth season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, the unmemorable The Mandalorian And Grogu hobbled into theaters this Memorial Day weekend. It's the first theatr...

After releasing micro-budget chiller Milk & Serial for free on YouTube two years ago, 26-year-old sketch comedian Curry Barker has graduated beyond the confines of streaming with the new horror outing...

This week, Brent Leuthold joins me to review the new cozy murder mystery, The Sheep Detectives in a feature review. Then we review the Damian McCarthy horror film, Hokum in this week’s secondary review. We also discuss recent news and Indianapolis movie events.

All is Farrell — Midwest Film Journal’s monthlong celebration of Colin Farrell’s 50th birthday — continues with Brent Leuthold’s appreciation of the awful Bobby Pellit in “Horrible Bosses.”…

Based on the international bestseller Three Bags Full by German crime writer Leonie Swann, The Sheep Detectives counts as one of the year's biggest surprises thus far. When I go into a theater, I do w...

Surviving a plane crash was just the start in this darkly comedic thriller.

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