“In ‘Proxima,’ Parenthood and Gender Threaten to Keep Eva Green Earthbound”

Eva Ever Green. Continue reading →

Review: The Salvation, 2015, dir. Kristian Levring

“Don’t bother playing the “name that reference” game with Kristian Levring’s The Salvation; his film owes much to the titans of the Western archetype, but he makes few if any nods to them. For whatever reason, we tend to expect our genre films to pay visual or aural tribute to their sires as though homage … Continue reading →

Review: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, dir. Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, 2014

Andy reviews SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR for Paste Magazine. The results aren’t pretty. Continue reading →

Go, See, Talk! Review: Dark Shadows

My review should make it immediately, abundantly clear, but I really didn’t like Tim Burton’s latest gaudy, Gothic opus, a re-interpretation/adaptation of the 1960s/70s TV show Dark Shadows. Diehard fans who worship at the Nightmare Before Christmas director’s altar will probably find themselves quite dazzled by what he’s done here, and in fairness I think … Continue reading →