Of the Big Five slasher franchises (i.e Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc.), perhaps the greatest one I’ve left untouched is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Perhaps this is because, unlike other franchises that stay consistently good (Scream) or...
There’s something irresistible about watching a master of a craft doing what they do best. Whether or not it’s their best work, or the film leaves you wanting more, the sheer spectacle of the filmmaking enshrouds and overwhelms you, oftentimes...
Few films are brave enough, honest enough, or smart enough to hold a mirror to the realities of today anymore. Whereas the 30s confronted the Great Depression head on, and the 70s were ripe with films ready to depict a society teetering on the...
Every time it feels as though Netflix has scraped the bottom of the barrel when it comes to its documentaries, one comes along that knocks you flat on your ass. Perhaps it’s because director Margaret Bowen’s Descendant was made outside of the...
The Halloween saga has officially (sure) come to an end. What started as an experimental indie film in 1978 exploded into a decades-long, thirteen-movie, genre-creating franchise filled with ups, downs, and whatever Resurrection was supposed to...
What is the essence of a biopic – or, to a further extent, any form of historical movie? Is it to educate? Entertain? Enrage? What purpose does it serve in the world of art, and to society as a whole? Normally, when a film elicits these kinds of...
There’s a popular fallacy that critics don’t enjoy or praise lighter fare; that they save their adoration for artier, weightier, or intellectual projects that quote-unquote “further the medium.” But film criticism is not about judging a picture...
Horror doesn’t only exist on the big screen. It also has a deep history on television, all the way back to The Twilight Zone. In recent years, horror has been more popular than ever, thanks to shows like American Horror Story and Yellowjackets...
There comes a point in every filmmaker’s life where you can kind of see everything come undone all at once. Never has this been more true than with David O. Russell, le enfant terrible of the screen who enjoyed two periods of success separated by...
It’s finally time, folks! Sacred Walloween is upon us – the spookiest time of the year. Which means that, on top of horror movie reviews and my annual #31DaysOfHorror that I inevitably give up on around Day 17, I’ve got a series of horror-based...
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