Weekend Roundtable: Horror Movies Worth Remaking
Halloween (the holiday, not the movie) is imminent and a remake of Suspiria is working its way through theaters. What other horror property might actually benefit from a full-fledged remake?
Halloween (the holiday, not the movie) is imminent and a remake of Suspiria is working its way through theaters. What other horror property might actually benefit from a full-fledged remake?
The familial comedy-drama can be a tough line to walk. Too sad, and the laughs seem out of place. Too funny, and the dramatic bits seem to be pandering to the emotions of the audience. Stella’s Last Weekend does a fine job o...
Repetition in film fascinates me. I love seeing emerging patterns and repeated phrases as a way for filmmakers to call our attention to certain details. I wish I had the foresight to count the number of times the word “fine&...
Part mystery, part thriller, Silencio takes a long, hard look at loss and grief, all while maintaining that there’s still a little bit of mystery in them hills.
The redundant title Hunter Killer might seem like a stutter, but it’s a perfect sign of things to come. You see, Hunter Killer thinks so little of its audience, it brings up nearly every plot point, nearly every attempt at c...
Full disclosure: I have not seen the previous two Johnny English films. Something tells me that I haven’t missed much in terms of plot or character depth, but I wanted to be honest with you, dear reader. The first in the ser...
The opening of Thunder Road is one of the most cringingly hilarious scenes of 2018. The rest of the movie never quite reaches the level of awkward humor in that opening number, but it comes close.
If the new Halloween can ignore and contradict all of the other Halloween sequels that came after the original movie, what will be the next franchise sequel to erase prior entries from canon?
As much fun as it is to escape to the fictional, ultra-rich worlds of Crazy Rich Asians or Trading Places, diving into certain niche pockets of the wealthy’s lives can be a bit confounding and exacerbating. One of the more i...
Thanksgiving should be a pure holiday. No Hallmark pressure to buy cards or decorate the house. No corporate consumerism pressing us to buy gifts for everyone we know. We’re just supposed to eat, digest, and be grateful. How...
The current trend in toxic fandom is to hold certain films and media as precious, and think it’s blasphemy to consider reimagining them. While I understand, but do not share, this territorial ownership on a childlike, emotio...
Mankind has been fascinated with the moon for as long as our species has been able to crane our necks up to look at it. Our few attempts to visit the place were pretty spectacular achievements, as the new film First Man attests. I...