For action fans of a certain persuasion (read: low- and mid-budget DTV), just seeing the names Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Aaron Toney, Tim…
It’s not often you get to see a space-based thriller that doesn’t come with a massive VFX budget and a huge marketing push. Delivering…
Time was, you could go see a slasher movie where the people making it seemed most concerned with providing gnarly kills, suspense, and perhaps…
Initially part of the upstart, so-called New French Extremity, director Xavier Gens’ debut feature Frontier(s) displayed an amusingly outré sensibility, mashing together various horror…
It’s common nowadays to praise “late style,” those works by great auteurs that find aged artists working familiar ground and exploring their obsessions with…
Neither the disasterpiece implied in its “wait, seriously?” premise nor an especially knowing or playful subversion of horror tropes, Bryce McGuire’s Night Swim is,…
Both the serial killer film and the road movie have storied and traceable cinematic histories, operating in movements that often weave past and around…
The Three Musketeers: Part I — D’Artagnan, the first of two entries as its title implies, is the French’s first major attempt at the…
An environmental disaster has rendered, seemingly, the entire world uninhabitable, with the last remnants of humanity clinging to a relic of the past, representing…
Despite the decimal of Godzilla Minus One’s Japenese title, written as -0.1, echoing Hideaki Anno’s Rebuild of Evangelion series, Tōhō’s iconic series has taken…
John Woo is perhaps the greatest director of action films of the last 40 years; at the very least, the competition is quite slim.…
There’s much to like about Paris Zarcilla’s debut feature-length film, Raging Grace, a sorta-kinda horror movie that flirts with very familiar territory before eventually…
After a shamelessly nepotistic career reboot last year with Snipers, a high-profile blockbuster directed with (and seemingly largely by) her father Zhang Yimou, Zhang…
What sets Eli Roth apart from other contemporary American horror directors is his unique braiding of current issues with high genre literacy. This holds…
Back in the mid-2000s, there was an Internet phenomenon called “Ever Dream This Man?” in which thousands of strangers around the globe claimed to…
As more and more classics of literature and film enter the choppy waters of public domain, low-rent features like new horror-comedy It’s a Wonderful…
There are strange goings-on in the Stains suburbs of France, an assemblage of stark high-rise buildings that are home to a collection of everyday…
It’s difficult to parse the project of Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams without relating it to the larger film industry. As they…