Weekend Roundtable: Unlikely Children’s Film Directors
If Cabin Fever and Hostel filmmaker Eli Roth can make a PG-rated children’s movie, what other unlikely director will do so next? Let’s see if we can figure that out in this week’s Roundtable.
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls Review: A Fun Time for the Ki
If recent history has taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. The past few years have been doozies. We’ve seen footage of a live giant squid and the return of Twin Peaks! So if I tell you that Eli Roth has made a movie ...
‘Death Wish’ (2018) Review: Bruce Goes Full Bronson
If there’s one old film franchise that seems completely impossible to foist onto audiences in 2018, it’s ‘Death Wish’. We’re in the height of the #MeToo movement and in the midst of another massive gun control debate in the wake o...
‘Knock Knock’ Review: Nobody’s Home
Eli Roth’s fifth feature hits screens only a few weeks after his fourth thanks to the two-year delay that held up the release of ‘The Green Inferno’. As a change of pace, ‘Knock Knock’ is an erotic thriller rather than straight ho...
‘The Green Inferno’ Review: Tasty Cannibal Horror, So
Here’s something you don’t see every day, a contemporary cannibal horror flick. There was a time when these things were cranked out regularly by the renegade Italian horror industry and represented the depths of their sleaziness. ...