Jessie Buckley’s hesitant recitation of Bonedog — the achingly painful poem written by Eva H.D. — is one of the most memorably harrowing sequences in…
Dolly lays its porcelain head at the altar of Leatherface. Rod Blackhurst’s bootstraps indie horror is unabashedly pious toward The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the seminal…
Sometimes you can tell right away that you’re in for a thoroughly generic bit of junk food, but that’s not always instructive of quality. Often,…
In a depressive musical landscape where the only things pop stars seem to sing about are wanting to have sex, having sex, and regretting having…
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! brashly announces in its opening title card that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein on a dare, and that’s an ethos the film itself has…
We need to talk about Tommy. In Jan Komasa’s Heel, Tommy (Anson Boon) is a proper hooligan. His nights out mean rails of cocaine in…
Hoppers, the latest animation project from Pixar/Disney, exceeds according to at least one important metric: it’s a familiar product, offering easily consumable family-fare and realizing…
For the most part, the documentaries that have made Gianfranco Rosi’s reputation have a firm basis in geography. Sacro GRA (2013) explored life in Rome…