2024 has been a good year for nostalgia-driven genre cinema so far. Especially with the widespread popularity of films like I Saw the TV…
On the heels of this past spring’s I.S.S., the summer season brings us another lower-budget, space-bound indie thriller, Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck in what’s…
Two British women, one affluent and childless, the other impoverished and seven months pregnant with a brood already at home, reconnect after decades, having…
For its first 10 to 15 minutes, Audrey Cummings’ reversionistic feminist Western Place of Bones proves to be surprisingly perplexing. A lot of this…
“Starting positions” was the ominous refrain Dale Cooper’s evil doppelgänger used, in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return, during an arm wrestling showdown; something…
Marx’s vampires and specters; the oil crisis, Vietnam War, and industrializing slaughterhouses as the background for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the commodification of the…
Both a post-#MeToo reckoning and a speculative account of the sort of behavior that could have transpired on billionaire Jeffrey Epstien’s island, Blink Twice…
Before throwing us into the story proper, JT Mollner’s Strange Darling informs us that it was “shot entirely on 35mm film.” It’s a strange…
Belgian writer-director Claude Schmitz’s third feature, The Other Laurens, is a dry-humor thriller with an existential neo-noir façade. Viewers expecting a tense, philosophical slow-burn…
Pandemic films seem to arrive now with an amount of healthy attendant skepticism. Do we really want to keep reliving these moments of our…
Writing about the recent Cuckoo, critic Willow Maclay asks: “does a film starring a trans person have a duty to say something specific about…
In 2014, Dawn DaLuise, a renowned Hollywood facialist, was arrested and charged with solicitation for murder after being accused of hiring a hitman to…
Karma’s a bitch. JoJo Siwa warned us all earlier this summer, and so the timing of her latest film (and the first that isn’t…
Genre films — especially horror films — tend to let you do a lot with a little. If you can sell a novel idea…
Will Neil Marshall ever get his mojo back? After finding early success with a run of lean, mean, low-budget face-melters — Dog Soldiers and The Descent…
The first obvious parallel to Tilman Singer’s horror-thriller Cuckoo is The Shining. A family — Luis (Marton Csokas), the patriarch, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), his…
Over the course of a single night, two couples trade psychic and physical blows over shared and shattered illusions about the business of connection…
Director Alexander J. Farrell’s The Beast Within opens with a quote about there “being two wolves inside each of us,” followed by a brief…