December 10th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Sometimes a movie walks in wearing a familiar face but still manages to charm you anyway. The Roses is exactly that sort of film — a modern reimagining of Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses that knowingly treads on recognizable ground while finding its own bittersweet, often funny rhythm. With Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman leading the way, […]
August 8th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Death of a Unicorn is not a movie you walk into lightly. Even for A24, the reigning studio of oddball indies and arthouse fever dreams, this one is strange in a way that feels oddly personal. The film opens with a literal unicorn—yes, an actual mythological beast—being accidentally run over by a father and daughter driving […]
September 24th, 2020 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
A young Brooklyn couple (Sunita Mani, “Glow” and John Reynolds, “Stranger Things”) heads to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.