Joel Potrykus offered viewers a kind of hell on earth in 2014 when he released Buzzard, a crusty cumrag of a movie about the…
What kind of Nicolas Cage fan are you? Maybe you like the deliberate, soulful Cage of Pig or Adaptation. Or maybe you prefer the…
In a recent interview with critic Carlos Aguilar, filmmaker Isaac Ezban recounts seeing Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth while in film school and being…
When corporations fail to look out for the best interests of the common people, it’s up to activists to save the day. This is…
A man wakes up on a crowded bus. He’s in a strange neighborhood, with no idea how he got there. He just wants to…
Last month, there was Disney’s Snow White, a live-action reimagining of one of the media conglomerate’s most cherished properties. It was a largely dismal…
Tony Jaa, action cinema’s favorite Muay Thai fighter, has faded from the limelight a bit after a quiet decade so far. He entered into…
Hell of a Summer is an easy film to dislike. A summer camp slasher that unabashedly and quite winkingly wears the skin of its…
When last we left Alex Garland, he was busy parsing the American left/right divide and the moral responsibilities of war journalism in the phenomenally…
It’s always a strange experience when a self-consciously campy horror film pulls out something genuinely emotional, if only for about a minute. Christopher Landon’s…
Narrative, as academics and book club members alike will tell you, is as much about process as it is about the final product. A…
It’s 1987 in Oakland, California. The Golden State Warriors are trying to avoid being swept by the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals, feuding…
David Ayer’s movies have often straddled the line between edgelord wannabe grit and cartoonish macho fantasy — although his best films, like WWII tank…
In an early scene from The Woman in the Yard, a mother walks in on her toddler reading Little Red Riding Hood to a…
In the sci-fi-horror film Ash, an ethnically and geographically diverse group of astronauts is dispatched to the farthest corners of the galaxy as Earth’s…
Wrapped up in the question of what it means to be a good parent is the more loaded question of what it means to…
In a landscape crowded with thrillers about obsession and celebrity, Jimmy Warden’s Borderline tries to carve out its own space, mixing ‘90s nostalgia, dark…
Depending on who you talk to, Paul W.S. Anderson might be considered a hack who makes demonstrably janky movies based adapted from the lesser…