Review: Superhost Gets the “Influencer” Thing Right, if Not Always the Scares
Sometimes a horror movie can be very good at what it does but still not be especially scary. We had a higher-profile example of that in last week’s Candyman, but […]
Review: See the Best of Noir Now in The Third Man, Full of the Style and Shadows of Postwar Vienna
The nighttime streets are dark and shadowy, elegant in rubble and 19th century buildings. Cobblestones glisten in the light from street lamps. Carol Reed’s 1949 film, The Third Man, shows […]
Review: Marvel’s Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Highlights the Best of Martial Arts in a Solid Stand-Alone Saga
I have been a massive admirer of martial arts films since I was a youngster, so seeing the genre represented, respected and modified to fit the superhero mold the way […]
Review: Udo Kier Channels the Heart and Nostalgia at the Center of Affecting Swan Song
Written and directed by Todd Stephens, Swan Song is the third of three films the Sandusky, OH native has made set in his hometown; the first two, Edge of Seventeen and […]
Review: A “Pandemic” Movie, Together Puts a More Than a Year of Lockdown in Perspective
There are a select few actors whose work I will seek out simply because they are in it, and one of them is James McAvoy. Long before his days with […]
Review: The Lost Leonardo Charts the Meteoric Rise (in Price) of a Potential Masterpiece
I have no idea what I was occupied with at the time, but I somehow entirely missed (or have since entirely forgotten) the news of a painting suspected to be […]
Review: Humorless and Ingratiating, Vacation Friends is a Comedic Dud
In the same way I’ll ding a horror film for not being scary, I’ll eagerly discuss the existence of comedies that rarely make me laugh. Welcome to the feature film […]
Review: No Man of God Puts a Serial Killer and a Scientist in the Same Room, to Fascinating Results
At this point, the only reason to dive into the world of Ted Bundy again would be if a filmmaker had discovered a more interesting way of tackling the subject […]
Review: At Times Dark and Grotesque, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman Seeks to Give Meaning to the Classic Horror Myth
One of the reasons this combination remake/sequel/reboot of the gets-better-with-age 1992 film Candyman is tough to discuss is because it’s a film that can’t quite decide what it is or […]
Review: Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed Chronicles How a Soft-Spoken Painter Became a Household Name
From Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life), the same director who brought us the four-part docu-series Lorena (executive produced by Jordan Peele, no less), about famed penis-slicer Lorena Bobbitt, comes Bob […]
Review: A Convoluted Plot and Stale Acting Leave Demonic with Nothing But Lame Scares
At one point in the last decade or so, attaching Neill Blomkamp to a sci-fi horror film indicated a certain level of potential for the final product. The filmmaker hit […]
Review: Intimate and Tender, Confetti Chronicles a Mother’s Journey to Give Her Daughter a Bright Future
Based on the actual story of writer/director Ann Hu (Shadow Magic), Confetti centers on a Chinese mother named Lan (Zhu Zhu), who discovers that her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) […]