Film Obsessive is pleased to exclusively premiere the trailer for The Reverb, a murder mystery show “written by Gen Z for Gen Z.” The Gen Z writers in question are sisters Jordan and Janie Ruttert, first-time creators who co-founded Pink Collar Productions. The two sisters share a love for storytelling and that much is evident in […]
Film Obsessive is thrilled to premiere the trailer for Hekla, a selection of the 2026 Dances With Films: LA Film Festival line-up. Avid readers of the site with recognize the title from Jay Rohr’s interview with writer/director Michael Glover Smith and star Elizabeth Stam and Don Shanahan’s review of the film. The film follows Hekla (Stam), […]
In reaching the halfway point of the year, it’s time to look back at the brightest and best that cinema had to offer. The first six months of 2026 brought a boon of fantastic features across several genres, from captivating horror to dynamic science fiction and searing dramas. The writers and editors at Film Obsessive […]
Yesterday, we revealed part one of Film Obsessive’s Best Films of 2025. Today, we’re back with eleven more of our staff’s favorite movies of the year. From long walks through dystopian wastelands, a cure to male loneliness, art heists, and a life-affirming Stephen King adaptation, take a look at part two of Film Obsessive’s Best […]
The title character in Nora, played by writer-director Anna Campbell of You, Me & Her, is a middle-aged mother who finds herself needing to step up to fuller parental responsibilities. Her daughter, Sadie, is beginning kindergarten. Even though she gets a little bit of empty nest, “treat yourself” freedom while the kid is at school, […]
The summer game having been an American staple for so long, it’s only natural that baseball films have come along to capture and extend the love and appreciation for the game that we here at Film Obsessive (at least, some of us!) share. Thus, to celebrate this week’s Opening Day of the Major League Baseball […]
The best rock films can make us laugh, make us cry, or make us think. Sometimes, they can do all of those and, maybe more importantly, make us rock out along the way. Since rock music first appeared on the big screen way back in the 1950s, filmgoers have been able to rock out to […]
Each month, dozens of new films are added to the Criterion Channel. While the rich selection of feature-length classic and independent films obviously gets a lot of well-deserved attention, I wanted to shine a little light on some of the short films. I believe that shorts should get a lot more attention than they typically […]
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we’ve got it. “Favorites” takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites—whether its moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!—in bite-sized articles perfect […]
After a sold-out world premiere at the 2026 Dances With Films: Los Angeles, Dave vs. Hollywood is heading to Texas. On Thursday, July 23 at 7pm, Dave vs. Hollywood will have its Texas premiere at the San Antonio Film Festival. Film Obsessive is thrilled to exclusively debut a clip from this cringe comedy mockumentary. From directors Brad Dickson and […]
The premise of shelter-in-place isolation–brought on by any number of possibilities from a global pandemic to a foreboding war or zombie apocalypse— is almost always an effective setting for several types of “bottle movies.” Stellar examples of the past prove that one can squeeze anything from a comedy of irascible people stuck together to a […]
Film Obsessive is proud to exclusively debut the trailer for Njedeh Anthony’s Yellow Broken Road, which will have its world premiere as part of the 2026 Dances With Films: Los Angeles programming. Anthony wrote, directed, and produced the film under the Gestalt Effect banner, a production company that is built on stories that will linger after […]
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