Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Features Stunning Animation, Plenty of Humanity and Just a Bit of Terror
If you had told me earlier this year that I would see a film version of Pinocchio that featured a…
Review: Low-Grade and Truly Indie, Watcher Is Sharp and Highly Effective
One of the highlights of last year’s horror anthology V/H/S/94 was director Chloe Okuno’s creature-feature segment “Storm Drain.” Now making her feature-length…
Dispatch: On Its Second Day, Sundance Film Festival Offers Films That Impress, Underwhelm and Unnerve
Just two days in and the 2022 Sundance Film Festival has featured a number of noteworthy premieres, from documentaries about…
Review: A WWII-Era Ambassador Stands Up to Nazis, and Leads a Resistance, in The Good Traitor
Between this title and Six Minutes To Midnight, it’s an interesting week for footnote stories about pre-WWII America and Britain.…
Review: Setting Aside Its Asides, Netflix’s Enola Holmes Works Best as a Coming-of-Age Adventure
Being totally unfamiliar with author Nancy Springer’s six-novel series about the teenage sister of detective Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes…
