#104: Four Brothers Download episode here. Listen to episode here. Episode Description: This week, Summer Blockbuster!?! gets into the holiday spirit as we take on 2005’s…
Ever since his 2003 debut, House of 1000 Corpses, Rob Zombie has used cinema to engage the paradox of counter-cultural extremity and populism. Raised as…
#103: Halloween II Download episode here. Listen to episode here. Episode Description: Our 2019 Month of Horrors Extravaganza concludes this week as we take on…
#102: The Blob Download episode here. Listen to episode here. Episode Description: Our Month of Horrors Extravaganza continues this week as we tackle 1988’s remake…
#101: Drag Me to Hell Download episode here. Listen to episode here. Episode Description: Our Month of Horrors Extravaganza continues this week as we discuss…
The King At first glance, adapting a story about the seat of privilege that is the throne might seem like an unexpected move for Australian…
The Cave Since the Syrian Civil war began in 2011, there has been no shortage of documentaries about the plight of the nation’s people, the…
Ridley Scott’s Alien is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and so here comes Memory: The Origins of Alien. Part behind-the-scenes featurette, part essay film, one wishes…
François Ozon‘s latest jumps from the testimony of one character to the next, following the thread of its main subject: a priest’s sexual abuse of…
It’s nigh-impossible to discuss the new film In My Room, from Berlin School-affiliated writer/director Ulrich Köhler, without revealing that a third of the way in, seemingly…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or into some…
With Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar has made his own 8½, seamlessly melding autobiography and fiction here to the point where they’re nearly indistinguishable. Even though the protagonist…
Another in a long line of recent horror entries chronicling an everyday individual possessed by an evil entity, The Dead Center sparks initial interest simply…
The Lighthouse is, in some ways, the last film we need right now. A male-centric chamber piece, Robert Eggers’s latest revels in the grotesqueries of guydom: farts, hooch, and…
Ira Sachs’ Frankie is a film of bourgeois comforts. Set in summery Sintra, it offers any number of picturesque views of the Portuguese town, which…
Synonyms is a film driven by an idea, one that rattles around in its protagonist’s head and belabors him at every step. The question is one…
You would be forgiven for thinking that director Michael Beach Nichols’ Wrinkles the Clown is yet another horror film capitalizing on the current coulrophobia craze,…
A barrage of cuts set to the metronome of a ticking clock fragments the daily routine in and around a meat market in the opening…
Scott Aukerman’s Between Two Ferns: The Movie barely qualifies as a movie, in much the same way that Between Two Ferns barely qualifies as a…
Situated in a tent camp within Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Bitter Bread follows a number of Syrian refugees, separated from their homes by war and snow-capped…
Although it’s ostensibly science-fiction, The Tree House is a film grounded in the past, present and future — or perhaps it occupies the gaps in…