The new Showtime series Kidding has an almost irresistible sales pitch for film nerds. The show reunites Jim Carrey with his Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry for the surreal tale of a children’s TV host suffering a ne...
It has come to be a cliché to say that a building, such as a house, is a character within a film. However, in a haunted Gothic horror like The Little Stranger, the possibility of the house acting of its own accord is a big part of...
I rather enjoyed the last couple episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, but I have to admit that the storm aftermath storyline is starting to feel pretty strained this week.
Now on its fifth actor to play the lead role, the Jack Ryan franchise has had nearly as many reboots as James Bond in half the time. The latest iteration brings Tom Clancy’s famed intelligence analyst to the small screen cou...
Ted Geoghegan’s second feature film is quite a departure from 2015’s We Are Still Here. While his first movie was a gushing love letter to horror’s history of haunted houses and small town secrets, Mohawk treads ...
We return from the Labor Day break and start September off with the Blu-ray debuts for a couple of the most buzzed-about movies of the year – a horror flick and a documentary that happen to present two wildly different views on ch...
In honor of the Labor Day holiday, let’s use this week’s Roundtable to reflect back on our very first gainful employment. What was your first job?
Often, when a film asks you to suspend your disbelief, it’s asking that you believe in a fairy tale, or that love conquers all, or even that John Travolta’s hairline is natural. This is why it’s so odd that the b...
Adapting a true story into a feature film requires striking a delicate balance. The movie should remain faithful to the actual events, but also needs to be entertaining. Operation Finale tells a mostly true story, but forgets to m...
In arguably one of the best episodes of the greatly undervalued show Party Down, Steve Guttenberg asks a question that is especially topical to a film like Kin: “Are science fiction and heart mutually exclusive?”
I reported yesterday that not just one, but both of my home theater projectors died on me, one right after the other. This definitely leaves me in a bind, but I’m not completely out of options quite yet. As an emergency stop...
Kristy isn’t a person; she’s an ideal. Young, beautiful, privileged, innocent and pure, a Kristy is the closest thing on our mortal coil to an angel. Naturally, Kristys (Kristies?) across the country are being ritualis...
