“No Power Compels the Tepid ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’ Adaptation”

Friends don’t let friends get their bodies taken over by evil spirits, and they also don’t let them make movies as bad as this one. Continue reading →

“No Power Compels the Tepid ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’ Adaptation”

Gonna hire a priest to exorcise this movie from my memory, hey-ooo. Continue reading →

“‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Review: David Blue Garcia Lets Leatherface Rip In Delightfully Gory Sequel”

Brum brummm, brum-brum-brummmmmmmm Continue reading →

“The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2018”

For your consideration: A whole heapin’ helpin’ of real good performances in real good movies. My picks here: Brady Jandreau, Joaquin Phoenix, Kiki Layne & Stefan James, and Ben Foster & Thomasin McKenzie. Maybe the last two feel like cheats, and in a way they are. But in a totally different way they’re not, because … Continue reading →

Review: Eighth Grade, 2018, dir. Bo Burnham

“Hey,” says the movie, “let’s all go back in time to our adolescence, when our skin resembled pizza bathed in grease and battered with a meat hammer, and everything we liked actually in retrospect really, really sucks, and social interaction felt as risky as giving yourself a half dozen paper cuts and sticking your limbs … Continue reading →