Spoiler alert: Don’t actually come to daddy, he’s going to try to kill you with a meat cleaver. It’s not his fault; he’s very, very drunk, and he’s also Stephen McHattie. (Or IS HE?!) Continue reading
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“The Roads Not Taken Is a Plea for Compassion”
There’s the Sally Potter we need, the Sally Potter we deserve, and, here, the Sally Potter we’re all very, very puzzled by. Continue reading
“‘Onward’: Pixar Takes A Step Backward In A Film Rife With Fantasy Clichés”
Onward, but not upward, or forward, just mostly backward. Continue reading
“‘Young Ahmed’ Needs Time To Grow Up”
Hey, did you know that a new Dardennes movie just came out less than a month ago? Bet you didn’t. I bet even the Dardennes didn’t! Continue reading
“‘Saint Frances’ Casts Aside Judgment for Compassion”
Andy makes a crediting boo-boo, but it’s okay. Continue reading
“Bacurau Is The Best John Carpenter Movie Carpenter Didn’t Actually Make”
If John Carpenter ever sees this movie, he will have to watch it through the tears in his eyes. Continue reading
“‘VFW’ Salutes the Troops with More Blood Than Brains”
So far, when it comes to Joe Begos and the movies that Joe Begos makes, I’m 2 for 4; I like Bliss, I like VFW (though I like it less than Bliss), and I remember liking Almost Human, but it’s been almost a decade so I might need to revisit. I also never saw Mind’s Eye. Sorry Joe! There’s … Continue reading
“Rashaad Ernesto Green’s ‘Premature’ Is Right on Time”
Sometimes love finds people too young. Sometimes bad, punny headers find unprepared readers. It happens. Continue reading
“‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ Is About Truly Being Seen By Another”
One of the “best films of 2019” is now actually opening in theaters, so really it’s one of the best films of 2020, but really it’s a great movie in any year and you should see it. Continue reading
“Soar With Ava Gardner In ‘Pandora And The Flying Dutchman'”
Greek mythology, Dutch mythology, Ava Gardner, day for night shooting, romance, and fourth-wall breaking; there’s no way I wasn’t going to dig this movie. Continue reading
“‘After Midnight’ Turns The Horror Of Heartbreak Into An Actual Physical Menace”
Happy Valentine’s Day, go watch a monster movie. Continue reading
“‘The Lodge’’s Mystery Is Undone by the Secrets That Inspire It”
File under “send horror journalists to check out the latest hyped-up thing,” please. Continue reading
“In ‘Zombi Child’, White Tears Dampen Haitian History”
“Go do that voodoo that you do,” says the spoiled white girl to the mambo, foolishly throwing cash at something she doesn’t and never will understand. Continue reading
“Americans Are What They Eat in ‘Dinner in America'”
“It’s so sexy / To be eating dinner in America” Continue reading
“The Power of ‘Three Christs’ Will Not Compel You”
That heaving noise you hear is the sound of Andy laughing too hard for too long at his own incredibly dumb joke. Continue reading
“Richard Stanley Un-Cages Lovecraftian Weirdness in ‘Color Out of Space'”
Unspeakable horror! Mutant nightmares! Eldritch evil! Alexandrian witchcraft! Nicolas Cage gleefully picking tomatoes and peaches off of the vine! Continue reading
“Able to Do Anything Post-MCU, Robert Downey Jr. Chooses ‘Dolittle'”
What’s a man do to when he has all the money in the world plus a rehabilitated image as Marvel’s greatest hero? He does little. Very, very little. Continue reading
“VHYes Rewinds to Pre-Smartphone Era of Self-Recording”
In which one kid’s personal apocalypse is ushered in through his own obsession with recording his every stupid move. Continue reading
“‘The Sonata’ Hits One Great Note and Misplays the Rest”
Andy had hopes for this movie, but it turns out it’s so not-a good. Continue reading
“‘Clemency’ Examines the Toll State-Sanctioned Murder Takes on Both Sides of the Bars”
Abolish the death penalty. Continue reading
