Whether I want to or not, I’m always curious what playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty, The Wicker Man remake) is up to, and […]
Over the years, writer/director John Hamberg has explored men from a unique perspective. Often with very funny results, he has posed questions about male friendships and relationships and wondered why […]
What the hell is this? Let me ask this very serious question: Does all special effects software just come with a bad CG shark as part of its package of […]
Putting a somewhat fresh spin on the superhero movie, director Julius Avery (Overlord) delivers Samaritan, the story of young Sam Cleary (real-life kid boxer Javon “Wanna” Walton) who grows up […]
Over the years, I’ve discovered that I have a soft spot for films about the magic powers that spoken-word storytelling can conjure, whether it’s simply a filmed performance of, for […]
Yet another clean, economic example of a pandemic-made film that isn’t about the pandemic and has higher aspirations than its simple story may let on. Actually, the latest from writer/director […]
Let me get this straight: the talented 25-year-old actor Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) is once again playing the character of Esther, last seen in 2009’s Orphan, in which [spoiler alert] […]
If you’ve seen any movie in the last 50 years involving a shark attack, then you’ve essentially seen Beast, the new release from visionary Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (101 Reykjavík, […]
Some days, a horror film concept just sells itself on paper. In Glorious, the new offering from Rebekah McKendry (All the Creatures Were Stirring), Ryan Kwanten plays a disturbed young […]
From director Wanuri Kahiu (Rafiki) and writer April Prosser comes another one of these stories that looks at a key moment in someone’s life and considers two possible paths that […]
The idea of facing one’s fears head-on is hardly a new one, but when the fear in question used to be a passion, that seems especially important to face. That’s […]
My entry point, not just into horror films but movies in general, was vampires, specifically Dracula movies. So I’m always a bit more interested in a scary movie when vampires […]