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Film Reviews

Wrath of Man (dir. Guy Ritchie): Film review

Dan Scully May 8, 2021 No Comments

WRATH OF MAN, the British gangster-heist-revenge film from Guy Ritchie, is a legitimately great movie

Film Reviews

Mortal Kombat (dir. Simon McQuoid): Film review

Dan Scully April 22, 2021 No Comments

It’s never easy to adapt a video game to film, mostly because the fun of a game is typically not the plot, so much as…

Reviews Theater

ZOO MOTEL (Theatre Exile): Checking in to the Zoom room

Scott Wiser April 15, 2021 No Comments

Catches perfectly the quarantine vibe of feeling isolated, alone, and somehow simultaneously overexposed

Film Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong (dir. Adam Wingard): Film review

Dan Scully March 31, 2021 No Comments

This clash of the titans is absolutely wonderful to behold

Film Reviews

NOBODY (dir. Ilya Naishuller): Film review

Dan Scully March 28, 2021 No Comments

If someone told me that the cinematic trend kicked off by Liam Neeson in which a middle-aged gentleman with a certain set of skills has…

Film Reviews

CRISIS (dir. Nicholas Jarecki): Film review

Dan Scully March 18, 2021 No Comments

Crisis does for the opioid crisis what Crash attempted to do for race relations in America.

Film Reviews

100 Days to Live (dir. Ravin Gandhi): Film review

Dan Scully March 16, 2021 No Comments

In the absence of resources, all you really need is a good story and the desire to tell it

Film Reviews

SLAXX (dir. Elza Kephart): Film review

Dan Scully March 15, 2021 No Comments

A pair of possessed jeans comes to life and starts killing the staff in delightfully brutal ways

Dance Music Reviews

A MODERN-DAY CARMEN FANTASY by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Brian Sanders’ JUNK

Dorie Byrne March 8, 2021 No Comments

The Philadelphia Orchestra teams up with Brian Sanders’ JUNK for a reimagined, COVID-cautious CARMEN.

Film Reviews

Sacrifice (dir. Andy Collier, Toor Mian): Film review

Dan Scully February 18, 2021 No Comments

Takes its time getting to the scary stuff, but uses that time to ratchet up the dread in a big way, leading to a surprising finale that chills to the bone.

Film Reviews

Greenland (dir. Ric Roman Waugh): Film review

Dan Scully February 14, 2021 No Comments

Worth checking out before the world ends

Film Reviews

BLISS (dir. Mike Cahill): Film review

Dan Scully February 5, 2021 No Comments

An empty novelty, presented in a way that can only keep the audience at a distance

Film Reviews

The Little Things (dir. John Lee Hancock): Film review

Dan Scully January 26, 2021 No Comments

I have a feeling that The Little Things is going to be a bit of a critical punching bag, but I enjoyed the film

Film Reviews

Psycho Goreman (dir. Steven Kostanski): Film review

Dan Scully January 18, 2021 2 Comments

It’s hard to overstate how wonderfully fucked up this movie is.

Music Reviews

Holiday Concerts in Review: 6 shows that went on despite the pandemic

Henrik Eger December 31, 2020 2 Comments

Some of the most beloved choruses and orchestras in the Philadelphia area became creative in entertaining audiences in safe and often unexpected ways via virtual holiday performances.