The past six months of franchise cinema have been quite kind1 to us. BLADE RUNNER 2049 was beautiful and wandering. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI turned out to be an honestly good film. Heck, even INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY was a fun prequel to an already solid franchise....
UNSANE, Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, would be considered mostly forgettable if it did not have the distinctions of being both Soderbergh’s first horror film and filmed entirely on an iPhone. Beyond those two nuggets and some genuinely solid performances, UNSANE is largely disposable. The film’s primary focus is...
Good films do not necessarily require big budgets. Many of my favorite films of the past 10 years have been made on shoestring budgets, over weekends in friends’ houses. When it comes down to it, the best films are based in good stories, good acting, and passionate execution....
You don’t necessarily need to know that Bushwick is the neighborhood where hipsters are kept within Brooklyn, but it helps. In the latest borough slasher PSYCHOTIC! you watch the bodies pile up as quickly as trends change. Loosely organized around a masked killer roaming around Brooklyn, PSYCHOTIC! features...
According to the view from here, 2018 should be a weird year for horror and genre film. Though there is plenty of promise for upcoming indies, there are also a slew of potentially pandering remakes and franchise films from large studios. As the eternal film optimist, I would...
Netflix pulled off a pretty neat gimmick last night by dropping the trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox and then nonchalantly telling viewers, “Oh by the way, the movie goes live after the game, TONIGHT.” No teaser trailers months ahead of time, no extended viral marketing campaign, no press junkets or...
*Yes, I know I’m two days behind everyone else posting about this trailer. Time is a flat circle, blah blah blah. Start your own damn site. Hot damn, HEREDITARY looks like the real deal. A24 looks to continue its streak of putting out snazzy genre fare and if...
To be a parent is to, at some point in your life, find yourself overcome with the urge to blissfully murder your children. It may occur around the ten thousandth sacrifice one makes on their child’s behalf. It could be the millionth exasperated eye roll while their oh-so-breakable...
*Says Mike, who, to be fair, missed a lot of stuff this year. It only makes sense that my list is two weeks two late. 2017 was an incredible year for cinema as a whole, and a standout year for horror films specifically, and I feel like I...
One of the most exciting, if controversial, choices Rian Johnson made in The Last Jedi is the way he chose to resolve the “mystery box” surrounding Rey and who her parents are. Johnson made a brave, smart choice that potentially bursts open the Star Wars universe and what...
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