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Zoe
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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Zoe continues the interrogation of the "she can do it all" mentality. Women are expected to work, be successful, raise a family, and land a hot, successful partner that she is madly in love with to do all of this with.
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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Sinners
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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The awards snubs will continue because Sinners has to fail this awards season in order to maintain the facade of the American white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. The one that is trying desperately to hang onto power right now in the U.S.
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo offers a bit of nostalgia and a reality check for the people who were actually Julie’s age at the time.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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No Choice
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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The film uses cinematic techniques to give viewers a glimpse into the terror women feel when they get that plus sign on a pregnancy test.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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Gazelle
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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However, Americans need to watch this movie to see just how broken the system is. It does not help those who need it most and only works for those who can pay their way through. That’s not democracy, and it’s not for the people.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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The Dummy Detective
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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The film plays with the genre in a style reminiscent of the Naked Gun films, but with an underlying darkness akin to that of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Oh, and there are actual dummies — the kind that ventriloquists use.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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Junkie
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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Through Stevie’s eyes, we see the struggles of a life damaged by substances. With her best frenemy, Sherry (played by Jessica Lea Risco), and best friend/dealer, Kyle (Kian Morr), Stevie takes the audience on an unforgettable Southern odyssey.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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Our Happy Place
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Our Happy Place was shot and produced with a small team. The result is a horrifying tale about the secrets that the most idyllic couples keep, even from themselves, during the holidays.
Posted Dec 06, 2025
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A Hot Summer Night
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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A Hot Summer Night reveals a side of lockdown life that few people truly knew about. The role of sex workers in helping people with both sexual and mental release. For many of the clients, she was the only person they had contact with all day.
Posted Dec 06, 2025
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Everyone Asked About You
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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If you hate movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Inception, then pass on Everybody Asked About You. The film is raw and complex, looking at the struggles of doing business in Hollywood while dealing with the trauma of childhood abuse.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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More Than Santa Baby
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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'More Than Santa Baby' has a message for artists chasing their "hit" while simultaneously creating the music that defines multiple generations. Take stock and be proud of your accomplishments.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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The Vile
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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The Vile's storytelling gave the audience a glimpse into a visceral, untethered experience, bringing life to a process that many women undergo inside their own minds, alone. This makes it a surprisingly feminist horror film.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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Good Side of Bad
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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The Good Side of Bad gives the audience a glimpse of what Florence sees, thinks, and feels in that opening scene. That POV disappears for the rest of the film, but the effect lingers. It forces viewers to question Florence every step of the way.
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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Redux Redux
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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Redux Redux combines dark genre elements to bend reality in a way that mimics a mother's toxic grief and rage cycle after losing a child to a violent crime.
Posted Aug 03, 2025
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The Omro Heist
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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Omro Heist is directed and written by the team of Jamie Bailey and Simon Phillips. They are the duo who create seriously sarcastic, thrilling films with twists you never saw coming. Omro Heist follows that same pattern.
Posted Aug 03, 2025
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The Ladies of the House
(2014)
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Jonita Davis
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The Ladies of the House does come off as a very feminist rendition of the classic cannibalistic serial killer film. However, it is so much more.
Posted Aug 03, 2025
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Been Here Stay Here
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Been Here Stay Here is a documentary about the citizens of Tangiers Island, devout people who are sounding the alarm on climate change as their beloved home succumbs to the hazards that science warned about.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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Dogma
(1999)
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Jonita Davis
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Watching the remastered 25th anniversary edition of Dogma today (in 2025), I had to ask myself: Was Dogma echoing the concerns of millennials (in its original 1999 release) or sending a foreshadowed message to the church about the mass exodus to come?
Posted May 29, 2025
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Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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Arcades and Love Songs offers a look into the life of a man pivoting to the career of his dreams after retiring from his “dream job.” It normalizes following your dream and also channeling heartache into the arts.
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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Disposable Humanity
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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I know that Disposable Humanity is about the hidden story of how the Nazis tortured, and killed the disabled people as a precursor to the Holocaust. Watching it from Trump’s America lends the documentary a horror edge that only comes from current events.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Silent Trees
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Silent Trees is a “must-watch” documentary for every American. We need to be reminded that the wars in Eastern Europe are being fought with human casualties. Like 16-year Rona’s pregnant mother, who froze to death while the family waited for asylum
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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The film takes us through Diane “Q Lazarus” Luckey’s addiction, homelessness, and even a stint as a sex worker. The writer/singer is candid about her journey, which is only enhanced by her enchanting storytelling.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Step Back, Doors Closing
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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If there were a genre for Step Back, Doors Closing, a new film from writer/director Carter Ward, it would be the same genre as the Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton romance comedies of the late 80s and 90s.
Posted Feb 25, 2025
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Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Pay Dirt strolls through the epic injuries, rivalries, and so much more that has defined the sport, using news footage, interviews, and live commentary from the racers — some of whom still carry the same animosity that they had on the dirt track.
Posted Jan 12, 2025
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Hazard
(2025)
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Jonita Davis
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Hazard is a love story. One that goes beyond Will and Sara. Will comes to terms with what the drugs are doing to his community and his home.
Posted Jan 12, 2025
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Nurse Unseen
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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Sadness and loss underscore the movie’s celebration of the Filipino women and their families who sacrificed so much over the years to come to the US and work in the hospitals here.
Posted Nov 20, 2024
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Afterwar
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Afterwar is important because it turns the camera on at the moment when the news cycle turns away. It proves that the city can rebuild and “come back” from the ravages of the war, but the people still carry its scars, especially the children
Posted Nov 19, 2024
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Trust in Love
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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The film Trust in Love attempts to catalog the most issues in an effort to follow a family going through the end of a longtime marriage. The issues do end up being a lot for one plot to handle.
Posted Oct 09, 2024
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Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
(2022)
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Jonita Davis
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The documentary is an unexpected education in the history of a music genre that thrived off of innovation and experimentation.
Posted Oct 09, 2024
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Heightened
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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'Heightened' dives into the world from the purview of a person who has been told over and over again that she is wrong and broken. It follows Nora as she heals. Along the way, it spotlights the dysfunction that exists in the "normal" people around her.
Posted Oct 02, 2024
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What a Feeling
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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'What a Feeling' brings a fresh and vital perspective to a trope that’s as old as film itself. And she does it without sacrificing the story, the romance, and the comedy.
Posted Oct 02, 2024
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The Mouse Trap
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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'Mouse Trap' is meant to resemble those films only enough to entertain in the moment. This means seeing things like a sudden teleportation power as the silly camp feature it’s supposed to be.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Don't Turn Your Back on Friday Night
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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'Don't Turn Your Back On Friday Night' serves double duty in chronicling an underground rockstar’s decades-long career while exposing him to a new audience.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Crescent City
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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In Crescent City, no one is who they say they are and thus can’t be trusted. The storyline twists until it becomes evident that no one is a “good cop.” Everyone has a dirty little secret. What matters is whose secret is more deadly than the others.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Minnesota Mean
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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Minnesota Mean is a documentary that follows a women’s roller derby team on their road to a championship after years of struggle. Along the way, the audience is treated to the realities of roller derby life on and off the skates.
Posted Jul 03, 2024
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Blackwater Lane
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Blackwater Lane is like a classic, Gothic horror. It opens with all the horror elements, but in the last half, the film switches up. There's a harsh reality check. It becomes a whodunit that questions societal issues with mental illness and classism.
Posted Jun 24, 2024
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Who Is Stan Smith?
(2022)
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Jonita Davis
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In humanizing the name, director Lee introduces a new generation to an ally whose humble place in Black history needs to be remembered.
Posted Apr 08, 2024
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Transition
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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In a world at war with itself, how important is it to know what the next person has in their pants? That’s the most basic question, under a pile of complex conversations in the documentary Transition.
Posted Mar 18, 2024
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Toll
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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'Toll' criticizes the hypocritical Christian urge to shine a spotlight on the gay community, while larger, more menacing sins are allowed to thrive in the shadows.
Posted Mar 12, 2024
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Dandelions
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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In Dandelions, Basil Mironer unearths a potentially devastating family secret via social media. The film follows the man as he explores the secrets, gathers facts, and later pulls the family together for what promises to be an explosive conversation.
Posted Feb 15, 2024
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Float
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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Float disrupts the romance formula in all the best ways to create a romance that everyone can relate to.
Posted Feb 09, 2024
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Petro
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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The eye-opening film takes a deep dive into the life of a Colombian Presidential candidate while also chronicling Colombian political history. The parallels between Colombia and the US are hard to ignore. In fact, some of the leaders are even similar.
Posted Jan 29, 2024
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Bliss
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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It’s about love, sex, drugs, Jesus, death and a romance that’s more awkward that in "Lars and the Real Girl". This hodgepodge of elements comes together in a slow-burn drama that interrogates the concepts of love and what it means to be a “good person”.
Posted Jan 29, 2024
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Sunrise
(2024)
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Jonita Davis
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Sunrise ventures a point. Sometimes hate runs so deep that only the supernatural can uproot it.
Posted Jan 17, 2024
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Shot in the Arm
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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Shot in the Arm is ultimately an indictment of the anti-vax movement as a massive fearmongering machine used by the “loud and wrong” to create a billion-dollar industry. It has also killed millions while threatening the health of the entire world.
Posted Jan 02, 2024
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Blind Eye Artist
(2022)
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Jonita Davis
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Blind Artist is thus an introduction to the artist for the fans of his work. For newcomers to the Wadlington art world, the documentary is an important story of triumph, resilience, and Black excellence.
Posted Dec 27, 2023
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Objects
(2021)
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Jonita Davis
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Objects is a quirky documentary that is surprisingly entertaining. It will leave you questioning the objects around you and the attachments to them.
Posted Dec 27, 2023
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The Mental State
(2022)
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Jonita Davis
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The Mental State's use of POV manipulation forces viewers to ponder how little has changed since Donnie Darko and A Beautiful Mind premiered decades ago.
Posted Dec 25, 2023
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Sick Girl
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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Sick Girl is full of lessons for the elder Gen-Zers. The most awkward, embarrassing, “Why would you do that?” type of lesson as Wren tries to right her wrongs without losing her friends.
Posted Oct 18, 2023
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Tokyo Cowboy
(2023)
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Jonita Davis
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Tokyo Cowboy is a heartwarming story of a man who does everything that he is supposed to in life, but that life is not what he wants. It’s bland and without passion.
Posted Oct 18, 2023
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