Film Reviews

Fantasia Review: Bryan Bertino is back with ‘The Dark and the Wicked,’ a masterful supernatural horror

Courtesy of RLJE Films “Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto… Read More

August 29, 2020

Film Review: Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ describes the indescribable

Jake, Young Woman, Mother, Father (Mary Cybulski/Netflix) Categorizing Charlie Kaufman’s new Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things as horror… Read More

August 28, 2020

Fantasia Review: ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’ is a wicked coming-of-age tale

courtesy of Gate 67 Films It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s… Read More

August 23, 2020

Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s time-bending ‘Tenet’ is his most challenging film yet

Courtesy of Warner Bros In the canon of Christopher Nolan films, Tenet is the same thing in reverse, and that's… Read More

August 21, 2020

Film Review: Jayro Bustamante’s ‘La Llorona’ (2020), an absorbing examination of an untold history and the politics of horror

The Guatemalan genocide, or the "silent holocaust," is the setting for director and writer Jayro Bustamante's new film La Llorona--not… Read More

August 17, 2020

Fantasia Review: ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’ is a Masterful Ode to Movie Lovers

Photo courtesy of 815 Pictures “I saw it in a movie” is something everyone has said at least once, and… Read More

August 16, 2020

Film Review: ‘Sputnik’ is better red than dead

Courtesy of IFC Films A feast for hypochondriacs, Sputnik asks the question, "What if that tickle in the back of your throat… Read More

August 13, 2020

Film Review: In ‘Boys State,’ American Exceptionalism Wins

Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s documentary Boys State begins by juxtaposing two ideologically opposite campers at the Texas outpost of… Read More

August 11, 2020

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Battlefield Earth and Gladiator (2000)

“After returning the video I honestly asked the clerk that even when I'm very drunk to stop me from renting… Read More

August 7, 2020

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Wild Wild West and American Beauty (1999)

“My biggest regret in seeing this film is that wish I could have warned you earlier not to see it.… Read More

August 3, 2020

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