A lot of people are furious at legendary documentarian Errol Morris for having the gall to make a documentary about contemporary Prince of Darkness Steve Bannon. That’s understandable. Why give this guy a platform if you con...
Paul Greengrass might have made his mark on blockbuster cinema with the jittery, politicized uneasiness that he brought to the spy genre via the Jason Bourne franchise, but thankfully he used those successes as a means of continui...
Three movies into his career, writer/director Peter Strickland has already established a weird niche for himself as a filmmaker. Each of his features could be boiled down to a premise that describes a 1970s Eurotrash exploitation ...
As you may recall, Best Buy announced a couple months ago a Blu-ray SteelBook for Pixar’s Incredibles 2 that had rather perplexing and ugly artwork. Zavvi has finally revealed the art for its competing SteelBook, which looks...
When it was announced that Shane Black would bring the Predator franchise back from the dead, it didn’t face nearly the same level of hype or skepticism as the return of the Alien series. The Predator has no masterful mythol...
Destroyer is a hardboiled bit of crime pulp that you’ve seen a thousand times before. Of course, the filmmakers know that and hope that the ingenuity comes in the telling and the details. Unfortunately, director Karyn Kusama...
The Sisters Brothers is another contemporary Western that seems to exist purely to prove that the genre is still relevant while telling a story about the demise of the West. It all started with Peckinpah before Eastwood kept at it...
Decapitations, possessions, exploding everything, splatstick humor, and Monica Bellucci as the queen of the underworld… Nekrotronic seems like the sort of nerdy horror show guaranteed to please anyone who enjoys such things. Unfor...
Written and directed by Mamoru Oshii (later renowned for Ghost in the Shell), the 1984 feature Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer is a raucous, surreal teenage high school comedy with some metaphysical ideas on its mind. The film...
Lock up your Lefties! Michael Moore is back and this time he’s got a documentary about a certain gentleman by the name of Donald J. Trump. Now, you might find this hard to believe, but Mr. Moore has a negative opinion of the...
Lee Chang-dong’s Burning is an impressive piece of craftsmanship clearly filled with ambition. The film has scenes and sequences that instantly burn into the brain and an ever-escalating sense of tension that makes it imposs...
Non-Fiction is the sort of movie that smart people like to watch to remind themselves that they are indeed intelligent without actually being challenged. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Entire studios and careers have be...
