Trace Sauveur

The Parrot Isn’t Saying Anything: How the 2024 U.S. Election Has Proven ‘Under the Silver Lake’ to be Right All Along

Election fraud. A migrant crime wave. Immigrants eating pets. FEMA exploiting hurricane survivors. The Democrats controlling the weather. These are… Read More

November 12, 2024

‘Shocker’ at 35: Wes Craven’s Beautifully Bonkers Thriller About an Electric Serial Killer Lives On As an Underrated Gem [Retrospective]

On November 9, 1984, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street was released to critical and commercial acclaim, praised for… Read More

October 24, 2024

‘Smile 2’ Review: Light Up Your Face with Gladness; Parker Finn’s Horror Franchise Sequel is Overly Familiar but Boasts an Impressive Sense of Style

Smile 2, the sequel to 2022’s horror franchise breakout, opens with one of the boldest sequences you'll find in mainstream… Read More

October 16, 2024

‘Blink Twice’ Review: Zoë Kravitz’s Feminist ‘Get Out’ is Righteously Angry and Frustratingly Derivative

To call Blink Twice an updated, feminist version of Get Out carries a lot of implications all at once—it’s a… Read More

August 14, 2024

‘It Ends With Us’ Review: Maybe We Should Have Kept Colleen Hoover on BookTok

It was only a matter of time before author du jour Colleen Hoover received the film adaptation treatment of one… Read More

August 7, 2024

‘Despicable Me 4’ Review: Super Minions, Gru Jr, and a Cockroach Man Clear the Low-Quality Bar Set by this Hyperactive Franchise

Let this review serve as a warning to you, your friends, and your family: Despicable Me 4 is out, and… Read More

July 2, 2024

‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Dodges Aliens with Her Cat While Looking for Pizza in Competent Yet Unremarkable Prequel

The A Quiet Place franchise is the poster child for enjoyably competent yet unremarkable studio horror. With the first two… Read More

June 27, 2024

20 Years Later, ‘Spider-Man 2’ is Still the Most Human Superhero Movie Ever Made [Retrospective]

In a recent red carpet interview, Sam Raimi was asked about the possibility of Spider-Man 4—that is, a continuation of… Read More

June 19, 2024

Interview: Michael Showalter on ‘The Idea of You,’ His Comfort Zone as a Rom-Com Director, and Finding the Balance Between Drama and Comedy

Michael Showalter was a bit of a weirdo comedy maverick during his initial years in entertainment. During his time at… Read More

May 1, 2024

Retrospective: Amped Up Jason Statham, Super-Charged Nipple Clamps and the Postmodern American Vulgarity of ‘Crank: High Voltage’ (2009)

Within the first fifteen minutes of Crank: High Voltage, Jason Statham’s Chev Chelios has graphic forcible open heart surgery, violently… Read More

April 17, 2024

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