66.25%
[Review] HBOmax Limited Series THE BABY Forces A Childless 30-Something To Mother The Spawn of Satan
Parenting is a thankless job. And no parent is given less appreciation than the mother of an evil, maniacal, (cute!)...
66.25%
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One eventful night of chaos. It’s a formula ideal for the found-footage horror, and one that’s been utilized to perfection...
78.75%
[#TIFF21 Review] Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Scares Up A Ghostly Good Time in The Swinging 60s
Edgar Wright has never made a bad movie. He probably never will. Part of that is because he is the ultimate movie nerd, obsessed with every color in the cinematic rainbow. Each of his movies is a deep dive into a different subgenre and how you respond to a new...
Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor is a mind-bending examination of the Video Naty hysteria that gripped Britain in the late 1980s. The...
91.25%
Like the re-emergence of perennial plants every spring, the elusive horror subgenre Folk Horror seems to sprout up incrementally throughout...
82.5%
If you’re anything like me, cartoons made specifically to fuck you up mentally are the best kind. Everyone’s nostalgic for sorrow! I don’t know if that’s true, but damned if it didn’t make your spooky little ears perk up. Somewhere mid-between the existential crisis of The Last Unicorn, and the...
95%
Nick Gillespie’s dark comedy Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break is as sweet as it is sinewy. It tugs on your heartstrings, tickles...
66.25%
It’s hard being a second wife, particularly when the first is still haunting your husband. Haunting and Hijinks are on...
When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how much I would love to return to the historical city. I think about jazz, the architecture, the above-ground cemeteries and its strong connection to voodoo. And when I think about...
When the Wachowskis first unleased The Matrix in 1999, the ideas and theories it posited blew mainstream society’s collective mind....
Sacrifice (2021) is written and directed by Andy Collier & Toor Mian and takes a subtle approach to slow-burn folk...
80%
[Sundance 2021 Review] Analog Era Love Letter CENSOR Blurs The Lines Between Video Nasty and Reality
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight opener Censor takes viewers beyond the cold, grey world of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain into the vibrant, violent world of the Video Nasties. As a North American, “Video Nasties” were something I didn’t learn about until well after the British censorship craze has cooled. Heck,...
