“Trey Edward Shults on Making ‘Waves'”

In which Trey and Andy go for the turkey and talk about Trey’s third movie. Never let it be said that critics don’t have their favorites. Continue reading →

“The Best Horror Movies of the 2010s”

The decade ain’t over ’til the ball drops, but eh, close enough in Internet years; let’s all get the pants scared off our persons. Continue reading →

Paste Magazine’s 50 Best Movies Of 2017

I’ll be upfront here: I really don’t agree with either the placement or inclusion of a big chunk of the movies included on Paste Magazine‘s 50 Best Movies Of 2017 list. (Notable entries: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, I, Tonya, John Wick Chapter 2, It, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Blade Runner 2049, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.) But that … Continue reading →

Paste Magazine’s 15 Best Horror Movies, 2017 Edition

Maybe I’m spoiled on 2016, but I don’t know that I feel 2017 was a particularly great year for horror: Just a good year led by some new classics (a’la Get Out and It Comes at Night and Prevenge), with a handful of great to really solid efforts backing them up (Personal Shopper, It, Raw, XX, Creep 2), and also mother!, … Continue reading →

The Playlist’s Best Movies Of 2017

I’m not in the habit of bagging on the people I write for, and I don’t mean to do so here. That said, I wrote about Phantom Thread for The Playlist’s year-end best-of list, and of course I think it deserves to be higher than #18. At the very least it shouldn’t come before The Big Sick, … Continue reading →

Here We Go Again: My Favorite Films Of 2017 (So Far)

It’s rare that a single movie becomes the prism through which I view every other piece of popular culture I engage with in a given year; this is partly because movies capable of being that prism come along but rarely, and partly because when they do, they don’t typically appear in theaters during February, previously … Continue reading →

The Family Ties That Bind Trey Edward Shults

Did you know that I really like Trey Edward Shults movies? Well, I do! So much that I have interviewed him twice, that I named his debut, Krisha, my #2 pick of 2016, and that I wrote this feature-length ditty over at Paste Magazine about the role family plays in his films (being Krisha and It Comes at … Continue reading →

Review Round-Up: Give The Mummy A Band Aid When It Comes At Night

(Author’s note: I’m trying this new thing where I will attempt to review movies here if I’m on assignment writing about ’em in other capacities elsewhere. So when I interview talent, write editorials, or compose lists, I’ll circle back around to this space for capsule reviews as buttressing corroborative details.) THE MUMMY, 2017, dir. Alex … Continue reading →

Interview: Trey Edward Shults, “It Comes at Night”

Another year, another interview with Trey Edward Shults, one of my favorite up and coming filmmakers. (I should maybe start a list of my favorite up and comers, just for my own edification, but also because I really love web traffic.)  In March of 2016, we talked about Krisha, his debut film, which turned out to … Continue reading →