The very first shot of Unpregnant is unglamorous and deeply honest – teenager Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) peeing on a pregnancy test in a cramped school bathroom stall. She’s anxious and fretting and just moments after we’re introduced to her, someone enters the bathroom and Veronica’s test slips out of her hands and slides in…
With the world in need of insightful films about race, social divide, and tolerance during a time when systemic racism has become a long overdue forefront cause to so many, Antebellum should have been a point of deeper discussion. Unfortunately, the film is too unsure of itself to achieve such accolades. Antebellum, directed by first-time…
What do you do when your center of gravity shifts so drastically that you can’t help but begin to float away; when your mother leaves you, your uncle rapes you, and your father dies because you try to seek your revenge, what do you do? As Haroula Rose’s feature-length directorial debut, Once Upon A River…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up, it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…
In the No Time To Die Countdown, Jake Tropila takes a look back at every Bond film – official and unofficial – in anticipation of the release of the latest entry. One trend that has been consistent through this point in the series is the promise that James Bond would return for another adventure, and…
Hulu has been stuck in the third-place position when it comes to movie streaming behind Netflix and Amazon Prime because most people still see them strictly as a home for next-day television. They have movies, too, though, and more than a few of them are gems that make Hulu a destination beyond last night’s TV…
Over the duration of its two seasons (one and a half actually, since the second season still has seven more episodes coming out next year), Pen15 — Hulu’s middle school comedy following the 30-something Maya Erksine and Anna Konkle playing the tween version of themselves — has offered us plenty of memorable, cringe-worthy moments involving…
Where do we go from here? This is what Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber ask us to consider in Pieces of a Woman. It’s never vocalized, nor does it act as anything more than a looming question mark, but its presence is felt. This query is dissected frame by frame, glance by glance, by Martha…
Brandon Cronenberg‘s excellent sophomore feature, Possessor, wants you to know what kind of movie it is right off the bat. It opens with a disturbing image of an unnamed young woman sticking a black, metal rod into her head. A few moments later, she goes to a party and walks up to a businessman then…
Between Allan Sherman’s “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” and Herb Alpert’s “The Lonely Bull,” I was able to terrorize my sister to no end. This first song is self-explanatory. It’s fashioned as a humorous novelty. The second one isn’t as obvious. In fact, it had nothing to do with the quality of the song itself but…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up, it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…
The drum beats whether you hear it or not in Sound of Metal, the narrative feature debut of co-writer/director Darius Marder. Ruben’s life was right where he wanted it. Having overcome drug addiction, he was able to fully invest in his relationship with his girlfriend, Lou, and their heavy metal band. An RV and an endless…