TIFF Journal: Joker
Midway through Joker, Joaquin Phoenix dances as he traipses down a New York staircase, and the soundtrack pounds to “Rock and Roll Part 2,” an anthem played at almost every sports arena for decades. The song’s pe...
TIFF Journal: Jojo Rabbit
At one level, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit is a fable about horror and redemption. On the other, it’s a coming-of-age story, where tales of monsters and villains, the basis of most literature aimed at children, are twis...
Fear the Walking Dead 5.13 Recap: “Together, We Can Get fro
Viewers who’ve felt that Fear the Walking Dead has lacked a compelling villain this season may be pleasantly surprised this week. Following several obvious filler entries, it’s nice to have a fairly eventful episode ag...
TIFF Journal: Dolemite Is My Name
Dolemite Is My Name is a delightful deep dive into the world of indie film production and the Blaxploitation genre. The movie feels like a spiritual sequel to Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (also scripted by screenwriters Scott Alexan...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 8th, 2019 – Gotta Rub
Not content to own just about every major blockbuster franchise, Disney makes a big play to drain every last penny out of our wallets by re-releasing seemingly half of its animation catalog onto Blu-ray and 4k Ultra HD this week. ...
Weekend Roundtable: Worst Horror Sequels
The sequel to the 2017 horror smash It arrives this weekend, and we can hope for the best that it will live up to the original. Sadly, many horror sequels don’t. In fact, a lot of them are just plain awful. Like some of thes...
It: Chapter Two Review – Whatever Floats Your Boat
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling.
Now Streaming – The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Netflix’s new epic event series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is what happens when you give Jim Henson’s gentle 1982 fantasy parable to the director of Transporter 2 with instructions to Game of Thrones the hell ...
One Man’s Trash: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
Hmmm, how best to succinctly describe the central conflict in Billy the Kid vs. Dracula…?
Fear the Walking Dead 5.12 Recap: “Seems God Needs New Batt
Fear the Walking Dead finds religion this week in an episode heavy with themes of faith and purpose. Surprisingly, it’s not the worst episode of the season. Of course, it’s also certainly not the best.
From Silents to the Seventies: Port of Shadows
Beautiful and devastating, Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) stands as one of the prime examples of poetic realism and remains a classic of French cinema.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 1st, 2019 – Time to H
Summer may not officially end for a couple more weeks according to the calendar, but the week after Labor Day marks the start of the school season for most American kids. For our purposes here, it also means that more summer movie...