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...
Every year there are a few films that are exemplary and deserve special attention, but don’t quite fit into my top horror list. Because these films are not strictly horror I am creating this special mention list to highlight some of my favorite non-horror films. Some of these...
On many fronts (both personal and political) 2017 was a dumpster pile of a year. But, just like many years in the past, art has saved me. Nearly every day of the year I could strut up to the cinema, or fire up my streaming subscriptions, and find...
Here’s the scoop to get free passes to see the latest INSIDIOUS: For your chance to enter-to-win passes to the advance screening of INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY in Boston on Wednesday, January 3rd, 7pm at AMC Boston Common, please click on the link below: https://tinyurl.com/INSDIOUSBOSTON *Remember seating...
Against my better instincts, I saw JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE. I know, I know. I should have listened to the little voice in the back of my head that said, “You know this is going to be crap, right?” And I did know it was going to...
Somehow, in 2017, we have finally gotten to the point where they are making great STARS WARS films. Not just good ones, or ones that meet our measured expectations, but great films. THE LAST JEDI is not a perfect film, but it is entertaining and manages to balance...
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