Horror fans can be a tough audience to please. Speaking as a lifelong member of that tribe, I know we can be curmudgeons. We complain about remakes and sequels, while also complaining when films don’t offer the fan-service t...
Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk tells the story of the doomed Russian submarine and the foiled attempts to rescue its hapless seamen. It’s a mix of character drama, suspenseful rescue adventure, and political film, with each...
Rosie sheds light on the plight of the working poor in Ireland by following a young family being pushed out of their middle-class lifestyle into one where the days are spent hustling for housing opportunities in a city that’...
For months now, the NBC ads have proclaimed Manifest to be the most anticipated new TV series of the year, as if repeating a lie often enough will make it true. Now that it’s here, is the destiny of the show to be the next L...
Director Jim Hosking is a singular force. His first feature , The Greasy Strangler, was doused in anxious energy and grease, so much so that I desperately wanted to take a shower after watching it. It’s not that his films ar...
To paraphrase my initial reaction as I sat in the theater fuming, Papi Chulo is a poisionously bad, blindly racist and sadistically awful film. Supremely, unconscionable shit.
Since the early 1980s, Chinese director Chen Kaige has made films that have played to international audiences. His most celebrated was 1993’s Palme d’Or winner Farewell My Concubine. He’s delved into historical d...
The good news is that this week’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead is a little more interesting and less frustrating than last week’s. Unfortunately, the choice of villain for this part of the season seems more and mor...
Few filmmaking careers are as unpredictable as that of director Michael Winterbottom. The restlessly experimental Brit seems to go out of his way to make wildly diverging projects every time he steps behind a camera, ranging from ...
Werner Herzog never struck me as the type of filmmaker interested in fawning hero worship, but then again former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t seem like the type of historical figure who might get some. Chalk it up ...
Red Joan is little more than a cheap bait-and-switch. The film promises a meaty, spy-themed drama starring Dame Judi Dench only to have the rug pulled out by focusing instead on a dreary, predictable tale told almost entirely in f...
It used to be that the release of a new Star Wars movie to either theaters or home video was a major event. Has Disney’s plan to churn out new Star Wars content non-stop in perpetuity already triggered franchise fatigue amon...
