Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are doled…
Credit where it’s due: Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sort of fiasco that Canadian pop superstar The Weeknd has been concertedly building toward over several…
Given a title like The Old Woman with the Knife, viewers will likely enter expecting to see an old woman killing people with a knife.…
There are so few solid, meat-and-potatoes American action films every year that get studio resources and an actual theatrical release that one is almost tempted…
It’s a great time to be a Josh Hartnett fan. The actor has enjoyed a considerable career resurgence as of late, delivering a memorable supporting…
One of the more compelling elements of the crime film occurs when a seemingly normal person gets roped into a series of illicit acts or…
Alternating between icky-squishy horror, fish-out-of-water comedy, and doppelgänger abstraction, director Kourtney Roy’s Kryptic certainly lives up to its title. If the whole thing ultimately feels…
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Joel Potrykus offered viewers a kind of hell on earth in 2014 when he released Buzzard, a crusty cumrag of a movie about the drudgery…
What kind of Nicolas Cage fan are you? Maybe you like the deliberate, soulful Cage of Pig or Adaptation. Or maybe you prefer the manic…
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 bowled…
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…
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 get…
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 affair,…
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 it…
Hell of a Summer is an easy film to dislike. A summer camp slasher that unabashedly and quite winkingly wears the skin of its forebears…
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 stupid…
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 Drop…
Narrative, as academics and book club members alike will tell you, is as much about process as it is about the final product. A story…
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 factions…