Titane is the femme-powered cannon that’s been taking the festival season by storm, and rightly so. Written and directed by...
What’s up, weirdos? Welcome back to Awfully Good, where we enjoy the worst that the horror genre has to offer!...
There are good reasons moviegoers are wary of CGI. If it’s not done well, it can be distracting. Even when it is, it runs the risk of becoming the point of the movie, overriding honest character reactions for what looks coolest in slow-mo. But every once in a while, there’s...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney...
Everyone enjoys a good story of comeuppance. An audience can’t help but feel a sincere sense of jubilance when a...
Can a gritty crime thriller be both dark and feel-good? Writer/Director Drew Goddard sure thinks so in his swinging ensemble flick Bad Times at the El Royale. A pure delight from start to finish, Bad Times will hit hard at your sweet tooth, but isn’t afraid to swing low and...
It feels like every studio movie nowadays wants to be Iron Man. That is, to be a big-budget venture into...
If there’s a genre that’s hip with the times, it’s definitely horror. Killing kids on Facebook before your grandma even...
[Review] A Small-Town Murder Mystery Undergoes A Monstrous Transformation in THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
If you wanted to, you could view the “Horror Vs. Thriller” debate about The Silence of the Lambs to be a testament to the movie’s power. If it’s a horror movie, it’s paced as well as the best of thrillers. If it’s a thriller, then it’s one of the most...
Which came first, Jaws or the summer monster movie? Of course, a film historian would point out that Jaws was...
After a pandemic’s-worth of wait, The Green Knight is finally here. Teased in early 2020 (now hereby known as “simpler...
It’s hard out there for a witch, as we can see in Lukas Feigelfeld’s feature film debut, Hagazussa. Set in a 15th century village, this film tackles the misogyny of superstition, its intergenerational impact, and a new perspective of vengeance. It is presented a series of progressively disturbing vignettes that...