I had a bit of a Munro Chambers marathon last week; I watched Harpoon one night, Riot Girls for lunch...
The opening of Robert Olsen and Dan Berk’s (The Stakelander) new film, Villains, sets the tone for the events to...
Out of all the horror films I’ve seen this year, my favorite opening shot came from Ready or Not. It’s the cover art to an old-timey (fictional) board game called “La Bail’s Gamble.” Over its retro Milton-Bradley scenery is a grinning vaudeville fiend, cackling with some horrible expression of certain...
What would you do to ensure your family’s financial security? Steal? Lie? Murder? In Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, he asks this...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular...
Think zom-coms are dead? Think again. The horror genre has witnessed consistent waves of zombified villains since Victor Halperin first got his hands on one of Kenneth Webb’s most famous Broadway plays, but our fascination with the living dead and our hunger for their nuanced existence remains insatiable. Our romance...
The month of April is the benchmark of many pleasantries, but this time around the start of spring is also...
Meeting the family of your significant other is nothing to die over, but some cases might prove otherwise. Why Don’t...
Rarely do we find comedy in carnage, but debut feature director Kirill Sokolov marries the two cinema components with guts and glory in his debut feature, Why Don’t You Just Die!. While Sokolov portrays his bold influencers through film, he is surprising audiences with a unique brand of Russian dark...
Animal lovers appreciate the love and care reciprocated by their pets so much so that the term “good boy” is...
Do you ever get the feeling you’re too polite for your own good? That your inability to speak up when...
Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s not Sidney Poitier. No, it’s some no-good punk with a weird haircut, who will try to hook up with your mom and light your front lawn on fire. At least his presence offers some excitement in this dull Midwest suburb. Written and directed by...