It’s a curious decision to release the scariest movie of the year a week after Halloween, but here we are. Writer/director Bryan Bertino’s The Dark and the Wicked is the […]
Feel free to add director Joe Marcantonio’s debut feature Kindred to the list of recent genre works that are actually family dramas couched in the effective framework of horror and/or […]
I’ve spoken before about those rare instances when you begin watching a movie and realize almost immediately that you know nothing about what you’re about to watch. You certainly haven’t […]
Netflix is aiming for all the Oscars next year (assuming the Academy Awards even happen). Most of their heavy-hitting titles are getting one- or two-week runs in theaters before landing […]
Taking a B-movie plot and fusing it with A-level heart and performances, the suspense drama Let Him Go is exactly the type of film we need right now, with its […]
For as long as I’ve been doing this movie review thing (more than 20 years), I’ve been reviewing a new documentary by Frederick Wiseman (National Gallery; Ex Libris: New York […]
I’m not sure how it’s possible Mortal, the new film by Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, and Trollhunter), isn’t […]
It’s not uncommon for promising short films to be developed into feature-length productions, the extended runtime giving the filmmaker the chance to really explore the narrative that began in the […]
Definitely taking a unique approach to the “dangerous hillbillies in the wooded mountains” sub-genre within the horror movie space, Spell tells the story of an African-American corporate attorney named Marquis […]
In a week front-loaded with average or subpar horror offerings, it’s nice to feel lifted by a documentary about the doughnut industry in California—something of a doughnut hotspot in America. […]
An expanded version of writer/director Jacob Chase’s effective short Larry, Come Play centers on a young autistic boy named Oliver (Azhy Robertson, who played the son in last year’s A […]
Courtesy of Blumhouse, the genre production house that gives and keeps on giving, comes this sort-of sequel/reboot (press notes call it a “continuation”) of the 1996 cult favorite The Craft, […]