Super Bowl LII supplied viewers with three unexpected things this past Sunday: bad commercials, a win for the Eagles, and...
One bad night… One bad decision… Can haunt you forever. Bad Samaritan follows the cat-and-mouse game between struggling artist Sean Falco (Robert Sheehan...
French filmmaker Pascal Laugier’s newest film finally gets wide US release today through VOD. Ghostland (sometimes referred to as Incident In A Ghost Land) is his first film in six years and is a return both to horror and France since his iconic 2008 film, Martyrs. Like Martyrs, this film...
An economically struggling young woman is lured into the snare of a wealthy, mysterious man. She finds herself in an...
I was talking with a fellow member of the press the other day on what qualifies as an opening movie...
In the new dark comedy Arizona, Danny McBride plays a villain who’s convinced he’s still a good guy, despite a few setbacks. I’m fascinated by McBride’s recent venture into genre film. Last summer, he joined the ensemble cast of Alien: Covenant and lately he’s been busy writing the screenplay for...
It’s rare that a movie comes along that completely upends your expectations. Relaxer is one of those films. The latest...
[Fantastic Fest Review] THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK is A Brilliantly Tense Noir Fueled By Paranoia
Henry Dunham’s The Standoff At Sparrow Creek celebrated its US premiere at the 2018 Fantastic Fest, stunning and disarming every single...
Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is not only a transformative film for her career, it presents the classically beautiful Nicole Kidman has a hardened, drink-sick detective. Her skin is tough leather, encasing a fire that burns so intensively inside her that she breaths smoke, ready to explode on everyone that crosses her....
The new Indian horror-fantasy Tumbbad is a dark and dangerous story of one man’s greed for a fallen god’s gold. Like all men...
Forgive me if I sound old-fashioned, but murdered teens just aren’t what they used to be. There was a time...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi?!), and the movie’s importance to werewolf lore (silver-as-kryptonite and full-moon-transformations come from this film). But what will always get me about this movie is the ending....