The Curse of La Llorona Review: Conjuring Up Cheap Scares
If you like horror films that offer no real scares other than quick shock effects and unconnected imagery, The Curse of La Llorona might just be your new favorite movie.
If you like horror films that offer no real scares other than quick shock effects and unconnected imagery, The Curse of La Llorona might just be your new favorite movie.
The horror genre’s subversive nature makes it a natural platform to take on some awfully big questions. I Trapped the Devil takes a long, hard look in humanity’s basement and you might not like what you see looking bac...
Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Old Scratch, the Prince of Darkness… The Devil goes by many names and has been depicted many different ways in popular culture. This week’s Roundtable looks at some of our favorite ...
It has been a boon for lost films of late. Technology is finally allowing projects thought impossible to finish to finally come to fruition. Digital editing has resulted in the ability to rescue performance works in particular. Am...
The new Hellboy has awfully big shoes to fill. Not only does the movie reboot and serve as a prequel to the ambitious films by Guillermo del Toro, it also recast the big red guy himself. Sadly, it’s a slog and a mess.
Stop-motion animation studio Laika might not crank out films in rapid succession, but has been incredibly consistent in the high quality of what it does release. Every Laika film has been nominated for an Oscar, and it would be su...
Feral may share its title with several other recent films, but this one is a singular experience of one woman trying to stay warm while homeless beneath New York City.
As audiences return this weekend to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, let’s look back to some of our favorite movie pets of the living variety. (At least, they were alive when these films were made. I can’t promise th...
Though he’s typically worshipped as the patriarch of modern horror, filmmakers have had mixed results in adapting Stephen King’s stories for the big screen. The latest incarnation of Pet Sematary is one of the better v...
The premise of Shazam! seems primed for contemporary audiences. It’s the story of a young boy trapped in the body of an adult, a feeling that comic book movie viewers long away from high school should easily relate to.
On its surface, The Brink appears to be a largely neutral examination of Steve Bannon’s involvement during the 2018 midterm elections. But just like Bannon himself, there’s far more going on beneath the surface. The do...
Currently working its way through the festival circuit is the quiet gem Princess of the Row. The film might be taken as heartbreaking, but at its core is a message of resilience and hope.