David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers opens with a group of four mischievous young kids (portrayed by the real-life siblings Homer, Ulysses, Arlo, and Atlas Janson) who,…
Filmmakers have been trying to figure out how to follow in the cloven hoof-steps of 1973’s zeitgeist-exploding The Exorcist almost since it was released, and,…
Halloween Ends is a superior to film to Halloween Kills, and that’s essentially where the praise ends. Let’s be clear about one thing right off…
Halloween Kills is a smug bit of a ill-advised fan service with dull kills, sanctimonious plot beats, and little narrative progression. David Gordon Green’s 2018 take…
Whatever its flaws (and they are myriad), director David Gordon Green’s Halloween is certainly a good looking film: Cinematographer Michael Simmonds mimics John Carpenter’s 1978 original…
Our second dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival (here’s the first) acts as a nice microcosm of the fest as a whole, and of…