Jim Cummings’ The Wolf of Snow Hollow came out last year. For a moment, while researching my piece on The Beta Test, his new movie, I thought I was experiencing time dilation, but no: It’s a 2020 movie. Cummings is a busy man. He’s also constantly improving. I genuinely think The Beta Test, co-directed with PJ McCabe, … Continue reading
Okay, not “darker” per se but certainly more assertively dark, in case you like semantic games. Continue reading
It’s been a while since I saw the Nelms brothers’ Small Town Crime, and it’s also been a while since I wrote up my review for Paste Magazine (which you can now read ’til the cows come home, if that’s your idea of a good time), and I’ve come closer to nailing down what it is about … Continue reading
We turn to movies, more often than not, for escape and distraction, for the promise of having our woes assuaged, if only for a couple of hours, in the calming glow of the silver screen (whether in large or small formats). Occasionally, though, the movies deny us, as in Angels Wear White, the new film by … Continue reading
I reviewed Christopher Smith’s Black Death on this very site six years ago, and so it was something of a pleasure to review his latest, Detour, even if I’m still murky on whether or not I think Detour is good. I liked it. I liked the film’s central gimmick, in which two narratives unfold representing the consequences of … Continue reading
What a stinker I am, all not loving this new Shane Black film that everyone else is losing their minds over. If you go see The Nice Guys, adjust your expectations first. Black’s film speaks to genre nostalgia and period nostalgia, and it rides on two great performances by its leads; it’s the kind of movie that … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 