A Mind on Fire

Neil LaBute’s debut feature film In the Company of Men (1997) hit independent cinema like a sledgehammer. In the Company of Men is a portrait of male toxicity. It’s about two busin…

Gatlopp: Hell of a Game Board games as a portal to Hell or a conduit for something bad to manifest in the world isn’t a new concept. What’s a ouija board but a board game? How man…

DEAD FOR A DOLLAR     Walter Hill’s filmography reads like a genre fan’s dream. He was producer on every Alien movie in the franchise. He wrote, as well as directed, The Warriors,…

ALICE We first meet Alice (Keke Palmer) as an enslaved woman on a plantation in the deep South. Director Krystin Ver Linden sets the scene as one would imagine life on a plantatio…

Children of Men is one of the bleakest movies of the 21st Century so far. It starts with a random bombing of a coffee house and the death of the last child born on earth, Baby Dieg…

It would not break my heart if it was ruled by some cinema governing body that remakes, whether a classic movie or a movie no one had ever heard of, were outlawed. Too bad this wil…

Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg’s second feature film, is a nasty little affair. You will be immediately sucked into it after the opening scene of a woman dressed as cheerleader kill…

It can be argued that Wayne Wang sparked the independent cinema movement of the 80’s. Yes, independent cinema was around long before Wang came on the scene. The first decades in th…

We’ve all seen documentaries on cults. Whether it’s a documentary on Jim Jones taking advantage of the poor and vulnerable or Keith Raniere taking advantage of the rich and vulnera…

Netflix’s new Resident Evil series seems a million miles away from the series of games it shares a name with and only a fleeting similarity with the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evi…