The Brothers Grimm and the like laid the groundwork for modern storytelling. From damsels in distress to wicked parental figures...
I’m a huge advocate of watching movies while under the influence. I believe occasionally taking psychedelic drugs before a viewing...
Special Actors, Shinichiro Ueda’s follow-up to the break-away hit One Cut of The Dead, is a feel-good comedy involving cults, ghosts, psychics, and actors implanted in everyday life like an immersive game gone mad. Continuing his streak of meta-movies, Special Actors is as much about the filmmaking process as it is about...
Plague doctors are due for a resurgence. And no, I’m not saying that because we’re six months into the pandemic...
In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
The subject of an instructional video cassette becomes aware of his own existence in Quinn Armstrong’s debut feature Survival Skills. It’s a delightfully dark oddity that plays like ASMR for VHS collectors and audiovisual club nerds. If you’ve ever sat threw an employee training video from 1985, for a job...
There is a helluva lot of art out there that wants to interrogate society’s relationship with violence. It’s as if...
The lights are down, the snacks are open, and there’s a distinctly earthy aroma filling the theater, which can mean...
Hear me out: every musical genre has a vampire film to match it. Bela Lugosi’s OG Dracula pairs with something classical, Schumacher’s The Lost Boys with glam rock, and Joe Begos’s brilliant Bliss with some acid-laced EDM. That’s not to say that these movies are literally scored with this music...
Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle documents five years in the life of an indie filmmaker. The documentary is not only a must-see...
Welcome to Awfully Good, where we celebrate trash cinema! In keeping with August’s Hot As Hell theme, tonight’s feature presentation...
Two men go into space but three come back in Egor Abramenko’s atmospheric sci-fi horror Sputnik. It’s an alien invasion film of a different variety, opting to infiltrate Earth by hiding inside one man rather than sending an army of spaceships to decimate our planet one monument at a time....