Articles by Rachel Ho
CUFF 2025: 'Move Ya Body: The Birth of House' Follows the Expected Beats
Directed by Elegance Bratton
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2025
The history of house music begins with the death of disco. As is the case with every trend, the synth-y beats of disco showed signs of...
CUFF 2025: 'Eephus' Is a Sweetly Nostalgic Home Run
Directed by Carson Lund
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2025
There's a gentle rhythm to baseball that mirrors a quiet summer evening around a bonfire — it's cooling off but the day's humidity still...
CUFF 2025: 'Shadow of God' Exorcises Trauma with Artful Style
Directed by Michael Peterson
PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2025
Led by a strong performance from Mark O'Brien, 'Shadow of God' shifts the balance of the exorcist premise while giving winks and nods to...
'Sinners' Goes Deeper Than Film
Directed by Ryan Coogler
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2025
Sinners is Ryan Coogler's first big studio film not based on any pre-existing IP, and the fact that the film features twin brothers who ret...
Finn Wolfhard Says Acting, Music and Directing Are "All the Same Train Station with All Different Tracks"
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2025
"I'm just a 22-year-old guy who's going through the same weird stuff that people who are in their early 20s go through, just in a different...
Netflix's Zeitgeist-Capturing Masterwork — and More Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in April 2025
PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2025
April snowstorms bring, we hope, gorgeous May flowers. As we wait for Spring to finally show itself for longer than two days, we can take...
'Drop' Scales the Heights of B Movies
Directed by Christopher Landon
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2025
B movies (and sometimes even C movies) can often deliver the most fun and entertaining experiences for audiences. What these films typically...
'Warfare' Is a Visceral Challenge to Consider the Horrors of War
Directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2025
Time has not been kind to the Iraq War — a conflict based on a lie about "weapons of mass destruction," resulting in a devastating death to...
