From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Two of Us
Odds are that if you’re reading this, you or one of your friends has attempted some kind of Paul McCartney impersonation at some point in their lives. The chances may be even better that, however...
View ArticleOne Night in Miami
Criticisms surrounding Regina King’s feature directorial debut seem to focus on its nature as an adaptation. Scripted by Soul scribe Kemp Powers from his own play of the same name, it would be easy to...
View ArticleIdentifying Features
Although it exists in a world governed and defined by politics, and although its story situates itself at the heart of existing political crises, Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features is, broadly,...
View ArticleOeuvre: David Cronenberg: Naked Lunch
If David Cronenberg had always displayed a certain cool aura of intelligentsia beneath even the goriest of his surfaces, his one-two punch of The Fly and Dead Ringers demonstrated his mastery of the...
View ArticlePsycho Goreman
If you’re only familiar with Steven Kotanski from his Lovecraftian horror flick The Void, then Psycho Goreman might be a case of cinematic whiplash. Leave any notions of gloom, terror, and dread at the...
View ArticleOur Friend
Nicole Teague died on September 9, 2014, just less than two years after a diagnosis of ovarian cancer and six months after the official prognosis that it had terminally spread throughout her stomach....
View ArticleRediscover: Marathon
Every Olympics Games gets its official Olympics movie. This shouldn’t come as a surprise: just about every major sporting event has an official film produced as part of the documentation and marketing...
View ArticleWrong Turn
One does not expect much from the remake/reboot/reimagining of 2003’s Wrong Turn, a vile and artless heap of exploitative garbage about a group of virginal teens and the accident that brings them,...
View ArticleBorn a Champion
Born a Champion seems incapable of providing us with anything except the same, old thing we’ve seen before and better. This is another of those movies about an aging veteran of a certain sport and his...
View ArticleBaby Done
While it is certainly not the sort of film that we have not seen before, Baby Done is warm in spirit and tone, funny enough and concise. Baby Done’s time-worn tropes, plot mechanics and...
View ArticleHoly Hell! Monsters Inc. Turns 20
If you grew up with Monsters, Inc., it might not be a bad idea to make a ritual of revisiting it every few years to see how much more you understand. Kids enjoy its monsters, but as time passes it...
View ArticleOeuvre: David Cronenberg: M. Butterfly
Unlike some other auteurs, David Cronenberg doesn’t typically develop long working relationships with lead actors, tending to cast for type and temperament and then moving on. Those films that do reuse...
View ArticleSaint Maud
“Dread” is the operative word on the menu when it comes to Rose Glass’ haunting directorial debut, Saint Maud. The film is filled to the brim with an almost-agonizing amount of anxiety, representing...
View ArticleThe Night
Teeming with ghosts, the accursed hotel at the center of The Night most effectively haunts its unfortunate guests by exploiting their own pasts. Much like Jack Torrance’s history of alcoholism and...
View ArticleThe Reunited States
It has been said that films do not exist in a vacuum, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that film release windows do not occur in a vacuum. This is a roundabout way of saying that the...
View ArticleRevisit: Moonstruck
The romantic comedy is an evergreen film genre, surviving decade after decade as other trends come and go. The best of them – Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960), Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977), Rob...
View ArticleTrue Mothers
Ever since she became established as one of Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux’s go-to favorites over a decade ago, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase has been something of a subject of mild...
View ArticleLittle Fish
Sometime in the near future, a virus has swept across the world. Screenwriter Mattson Tomlin and director Chad Hartigan would obviously have had no idea that such a fact would be unsurprising to...
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Revisit: Come and See
World War II, as a milieu, has long been a playground for filmmakers inside and out of the Hollywood system. From big-budget fantasias with immeasurable body counts to painfully intimate survival...
View ArticleA Glitch in the Matrix
Ever since Neo first took the red pill, simulation theory has expanded across popular consciousness. The idea that the physical world as we know it is a façade, a veil that obscures true reality (or at...
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