Monster (2023): When the Truth Is Not in the Telling but in the Seeing
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.

Your favorite movie podcast is stepping out of the studio and into the big city lights for a very special engagement at Town Hall. Join hosts Griffin Newman, David Sims, and a chorus line of special guests for Blank Check's BIGGEST SHOW EVER. You can expect a playbill full of silly bits for the podcasts NINE YEAR ANNIVERSARY - and perhaps even a song and/or dance (if we can convince David). You don't want to miss this one, folks.
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
It's sexy, regardless of what else is going on.
The newest in a long line of Cinderella adaptations, Amazon’s Cinderella (2021) prizes girlbossification above the very story it tries to adapt.
One young woman with an unusual background tries to find and establish herself in the real world, which isn't exactly as festive as she hoped it would be.
Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.