When I went to see Companion (review coming soon), the trailer for Heart Eyes was playing before it. I do my best to avoid trailers, even when I’m in the theatre, but when this one started, I thought it looked so bad that I’d never bother watching it in the first place. That feeling quickly…
The Monkey is exactly the kind of hilarious, madcap horror-comedy we need to inject a little life (and death) into cinemas this February. The latest from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins, The Monkey is based on the Stephen King short story of the same name and follows twin brothers who discover a mysterious wind-up monkey (don’t…
The latest from director Steven Soderbergh opened strong this past weekend, nearly doubling its modest $2 million budget. In total, the film grossed $3.7 million in its first three days of wide release. We reviewed the film last week, and gave it a positive rating thanks especially to the strong direction and camerawork from Soderbergh….
Presence is the latest film from director Steven Soderbergh who has one of the more interesting filmographies I’ve seen. It includes the Ocean’s Trilogy, Magic Mike, Contagion, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and Logan Lucky, a movie I really, really like. He was my most watched director last year too, as over the holidays I watched…
It’s hard to tell old stories in new ways. That’s especially true when the story in question is one that’s been told countless times since the 1890s. If you’ve never read Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), you’re still likely familiar with the story in some form or another. If not that, then you’re surely familiar with…
For anyone that’s been following along at Screen Love Affair, you know the horror genre is one of my favourites. However, most horror movies these days don’t work for me. Not only do so many of them feel the same, they often lack any real identity, and the worst part is that they lack any…
We’re kicking off 2025 with one of the last movies to get released in 2024! Babygirl stars Nicole Kidman as a high-powered CEO who begins an affair with one of her interns. I got to see this one ahead of its release with a pretty big crowd and it was one of the more memorable…