MOVIE REVIEW: The Invite

Compare your kinks and compare your calamity to theirs as the cross-examinations skirt the existential as well as the suggestive. This all feels like a brisk game and a bold test, and there is unmistakable brilliance to take away from such an experience, and witnessing the savvy theatrical chops, led by Olivia Wilde, it took to pull this kind of vampy subterfuge.

2026, 5 STARS, Independent Film, MOVIE REVIEW, Film FestivalDon ShanahanJuly 1, 2026The Invite, Olivia Wilde, Edward Norton, Penelope Cruz, Seth Rogen, Will McCormack, Rashida JonesComment

MOVIE REVIEW: In the Blink of an Eye

When done right, heady ideas and anchors of the human condition can move a viewer as much, if not more, than spectacle. Filmmaker and animator Andrew Stanton’s latest foray into live-action, In the Blink of an Eye, available on Hulu, desperately wants to be the highest kind of exemplar for favoring the evocative over the explosive.