REVIEW: ‘Summoning Sylvia’ Summons Huge Laughs-Per-Minute
by Reading Time: 2 minutes Summoning Sylvia is a quick and to-the-point horror comedy about a bachelor party-turned-summoning crashed by a straight brother-in-law.
Author: Jason Flatt
Jason is the Sr. Editor at But Why Tho? and producer of the But Why Tho? Podcast. He's usually writing about foreign films, Jewish media, and summer camp.
REVIEW: ‘A Thousand And One’ Highlights The Selfishness Of Parenting
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Thousand and One is a stunning saga lamenting the lie if the American Dream with as real a portrait of parenthood as film could capture
REVIEW: ‘Soft’ Is A Movie Of Queer Teenage Extremes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Soft lets three best friends be free to be boundary-pushing teenagers away from the gaze or control of their parents.
REVIEW: ‘This Place’ Asks What It Means To Belong
Reading Time: 3 minutes This Place perfectly blends the narratives of queer romance and cultural otherness as two women fall in love for the first time and wrestle with identity.
REVIEW: ‘Johnny’ Makes Death And Dying Simple
Reading Time: 3 minutes Johnny is a simple but impactful movie about working through one of life’s most harrowing responsibilities: caring for the dying.
REVIEW: ‘Agent Elvis’ Is Interesting And Bizarre
Reading Time: 3 minutes Agent Elvis asks “what if Elvis was a secret agent,” in this absurd, violent galavant through an imagined Elvis’ life as a spy.
REVIEW: ‘Still Time’ Asks If People Ever Really Change
Reading Time: 3 minutes Still Time is a really great allegory for how bad we all are at living in the present and how hard it is to change ourselves before it’s too late.
REVIEW: ‘Romancelvania’ Is Warm But Not Smoldering (XSX)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Romancelvania combines two disparate genres, dating sim and Metroidvania, as Drac gets dragged into a dating show to find themselves a new lover
