Outside of Jordan Peele and Adam Wingard, James Wan seems to be the only director in Hollywood interested in making fun horror throwbacks that allow audiences to just sit back and have a ball. Ever since changing the game with 2003’s Saw, Wan has...
Dear Evan Hansen has already been thoroughly drubbed by the critical community and the Internet. After coming in hot as the golden child of the 2017 Broadway scene, the film has had more of an uphill battle, thanks to the trifecta of issues...
Blue Bayou could not have arrived at a more prescient time. When it was filmed and edited in 2019, it was before George Floyd and Elijah McClain forced police injustice to the forefront of the American consciousness. Prison reform was only...
It’s always baffled me that so many television preachers are capable of swindling folks – usually the elderly – into giving up their last pennies under the implication of “buying their way into Heaven” while they themselves get richer. It’s...
It’s rather astonishing that more movie musicals aren’t set in high schools. After all, Grease is one of the highest grossing musicals of all time, and the hormone and emotion-ridden time in an adolescent’s life marks the perfect place for...
Horror based on depression has become a dime a dozen in recent years. While it’s always been a recurring theme in the genre (horror is designed to help us cathartically release the terrors we can’t explain), it seems that in recent years these...
Animation is a genre is supposed to find new ways to expand the imagination. It’s meant to take us to places the human mind cannot go, and to utilize visual metaphors to explore human emotion. Right now, the best place to witness these...
In 1992, Candyman landed in theaters. It came at the tail end of the 80s horror craze, and without the name branding of Freddy Krueger or Jason Vorhees, the film barely broke even at the box office. But as an original horror film with big things...
In 2019, the Met Gala chose “Camp” as its theme. The choice was controversial, as most of the stars were too obsessed with their own glamour and attractiveness to truly understand the concept of camp. A similar issue arises with Craig Gillespie’s...
Every once in a while, you find a film you can only describe as “special.” It may be once in a lifetime, it may be once a decade. But it will always be the work of a master, grappling with the big questions of the universe in a way that will...
When you think of the name Leos Carax, if you think of that name at all, you think of the absurd. After his groundbreaking post-modern opus Holy Motors, Carax had established himself as both a student and a critic of the Old Guard. It’s a label I...
Despite the fact that Covid – and specifically the Delta Variant – continues to ravage the world around us, most people continue to embrace the fact that we are seemingly in the endgame. And part of the post-mortem on any major disaster like this...
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