“Kate Dickie Is Mother of the Year in Ben Steiner’s Hulu Horror ‘Matriarch'”

All the boys love Kate Dickie. And the girls. Men and women, too, 50 and older. In fact it’s really just the 50 and older crowd, forget about the boys and girls. Continue reading →

“Chino Moya’s Intriguing Debut ‘Undergods’ Feels Underbaked”

Indivisible, with liberty and first-draft movies for all. Continue reading →

Review: Prevenge, 2017, dir. Alice Lowe

“A 7 months pregnant woman starts murdering the people involved in her partner’s death because her unborn baby tells her to.” That’s Prevenge in summation. In my mind, there’s an alternate dimension where the film attached to that summation is just a winking, nudging, overly self-aware video nasty, and it’s probably fun but too insistent on … Continue reading →

Review: The Witch, 2016, dir. Robert Eggers

There’s not a lot that I have to say about Roger Eggers’ The Witch that isn’t perfectly encapsulated by a single line from Drew McWeeny’s review out of Sundance 2015. “I’m not sure how you explain what you want in scenes like these to kids,” he wrote of one specific and electrifying moment midway through the … Continue reading →