All I wanted to do when I was kid was draw. My Ma would send me to school with a cheap stack of paper and a huge bag of crayons and markers so I wouldn’t draw on quizzes and tests.…
Lorcan Finnegan’s last feature,Vivarium, was a mind bending statement on suburbia. Nocebo, Finnegan’s latest feature, couldn’t be more different from Vivarium or Without Name, his …
Kurt Wimmer’s Children of the Corn (2023) bears little resemblance to 1984’s original or to Stephen King’s story. To be fair, the SyFy Channel’s 2009 version bore little similariti…
(There’s spoilers ahead but when you’re done you can turn the dial to a time when you hadn’t read this piece. No time loop created.)
Indiana Jones fans have been expected to accep…
It would be a mistake not to blame David Zaslav and James Gunn for the colossal failure The Flash has turned out to be. One of the first things Zaslav did upon ascending the Warner…
As an experimental art house movie, Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men can be considered a success. There’s no linear narrative in the movie. Jenkin has chosen to scatter any sense of a story …
Ah, the lovers lane, a product of the 1950’s when middle-class Americans could afford cars, teenagers were horny, and there was nowhere to go but out of the way places to release b…
Nepo-baby is the word of the moment. If you don’t know the meaning of nepo-baby it’s a pretty basic concept. In short, it’s when a child of a famous actor gets work in Hollywood ba…
It is without a doubt that the system used, abused, and spit Marilyn Monroe out just as quickly as it swallowed her. These things are not in doubt. Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, based o…
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…
