The great Octavia Spencer, Academy Award winner and most humble of actors, plays the lead role in the latest Blumhouse “horror” Ma. It’s hard for me to classify this as a horror movie, though I suppose the genre fits with its tropes and tactics. It’s hard for me because of how much I actually found […]
Assimilate does justice to the theme of underlying existential dread and zombie-like terror, but not with the finesse one would like to see.
A Quiet Storm was made many years ago, but will soon see the light of a release day. What it gets right is in the feel for a city in turmoil.
Entertainment sites and outlets have been buzzing about “Burning Cane’s” Tribeca victory in a way rarely seen.
It’s hard to pinpoint just when exactly I realized how much I really loved Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to It Follows. Ranked with a roughly split 50% or so score on Rotten Tomatoes, its divisive nature is easy to understand just as its genre classification is easy to confuse. A neo-noir […]
You can’t make a tragedy without having had a laugh or two and you can’t appreciate the funny without getting through the sad.
Oh, the trials and tribulations in bringing the story of Don Quixote to the big screen. Orson Welles tried for decades, lamenting that he’d just finish it on his own time. His adaptation would go through different leading men and shifts in setting, supposedly even… to the moon itself? Truth can be stranger than fiction, […]
Endgame is big-picture-minded with its eyes on both the individual and the collective story and character arcs.
“Tomorrow Never Knows” tells the story of Shar Jones, a transgender person faced with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the choice he and his wife faced.
As a child of 1985 but a kid of the ’90s, I was (un?)fortunately born into a pop-culture hellscape of Americana that bled from millennium to millennium. Another one thousand years since the “start date” of recorded history, and we kick-off 2000 with No Doubt performing “It’s the End of the World as We Know […]
