The Elseworlds event continues on Arrow. In a lot of ways, the second part of the crossover serves as a backdoor pilot for next year’s upcoming new DC Arrowverse spinoff. No matter, it works well enough and even makes me wan...
A timeless cautionary tale and just a damn good thriller, the low-budget Gun Crazy takes us on a riveting ride into the dark, crooked world of film noir. This crime classic stands as one of the genre’s finest entries and des...
The Flash switches nights with Supergirl this week to kick off the season’s big DC crossover event, called Elseworlds. Last year’s Crisis on Earth-X was a lot of fun and set a high bar for this one to clear. Fortunatel...
Considering how frequently we hear dire news about the market for physical media dying, it sure doesn’t seem like the volume of new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases has slowed down at all. Quite the opposite, actually. This wee...
Perhaps no film genre is more reliable year-end awards bait than the historical costume drama. We have a couple in theaters right now, the serious-minded bio-pic Mary Queen of Scots and the dark comedy The Favourite. Our Roundtabl...
Vox Lux is a fictional tale of a young pop star’s meteoric rise into a successful recording and touring career. Beyond that very loose premise, the movie has no other major factors in common with A Star Is Born, or even Neil...
Historical revisionism is hardly new, going back to the earliest works of poetry and drama. Even contemporary Elizabethan tales reshaped the age into something poetic and mythic. Keeping with this tradition, longtime theater direc...
Wallace Beery may be the star, but it’s the fascinating Louise Brooks who grabs the focus of Beggars of Life, a rough-and-tumble tale of impoverished vagabonds and their steely will to survive. Produced in the twilight of th...
Though director/actor/writer Adam Christian Clark’s Newly Single is supposedly semi-autobiographical, I hope that his character is more fiction than not. In the film, which is currently on iTunes, the main character comes ac...
The time travel episodes of The Flash are typically the show’s most narratively muddled, frustrating, and frankly dumb. It’s a remarkable relief that the series’ milestone 100th episode, directed by cast member T...
Stanley Kubrick had a reputation as a demanding perfectionist, to put it lightly. Of all the people who worked with him over the decades, perhaps none experienced the true extent of the filmmaker’s obsessive compulsions more...
Between escape room group adventure games and extreme haunted houses, horror fans are taking their love for scares off the page and screen and into the real world. Ruin Me, a Shudder exclusive, shows how terribly wrong things can ...
