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...
After years of heteronormativity within the studio system (the independent scene has always been delightfully queer in that regard), there has been a recent upswing in LGBT+ romantic comedies in recent years. Love, Simon gave a queer spin on...
At some point in every grown adult’s life, some intrinsic part of the human brain sends out signals indicating the desire to embrace parenthood. Yes, this includes the animalistic desire to mate, but I’m talking the domesticity of adulthood. Call...
If you’ve gone to the theater at pretty much any point in the last four months (at least since May, when the teaser popped up with Maverick), you’ve likely been exposed to a form of guerilla marketing. A slick ad with the goofiest premise has...
In June of this year, Baz Luhrmann released his opulent, haunting take on Elvis Presley in Elvis. In August, Jeannette McCurdy released her memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, an occasionally funny, mostly sobering look at her abuse in the Hollywood...
Ed. Note: If you’ve come to this review expecting some sort of rehash of the disastrous publicity tour surrounding the film, you are sorely mistaken. My interest here is solely to review the film as is, not the gossip and hearsay surrounding it...
Are we at a point where I can start copy-pasting my reviews of American remakes of foreign language films? Every single outing consists of a SparkNotes version of the original, albeit with the eye-catching and scandalous moments that made them...
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