Movies

Writing about Rene Perez’s Death Kiss is a difficult prospect.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web gets caught in its own formulaic web.

The opening shot to Outlaw King promises something that the script isn’t ready to provide.

Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a confrontation, a bold and unsettling film that ultimately concaves upon itself by its own pretensions.

I’m convinced there’s a potentially great movie in Suspiria but it’s going to require a lot of excavation to allow it to see the outside.

Holness’ feature film debut, Possum, is nothing short of impressive, even if it doesn’t quite stick the landing.

With his latest, Apostle, Evans keeps the practical effects and buries them in a sadistic occult update of the type if film that flourished in the 1970s.

The filmmakers behind Mad Genius created a thought-provoking, low-budget sci-fi film that went somewhere new.

What’s so great about horror remakes is that fans and critics alike seem to have vastly different reactions to them.

It is no disservice when I say that Bad Times at the El Royale joins the ranks of the finest of Tarantino imitators.

In Jeremy Saulnier’s newest film Hold the Dark, Alaska exists as a force that has been embedded within the psyche of all the characters.

Venom is a mediocre superhero movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be.

Shane Black is going back home to revive the dormant franchise with The Predator, a big-budget sequel/reboot that aims for the stars and falls far, far too short.

Mandy is overwhelmingly a campy revenge thriller that celebrates the unique Cage-ness of Nicolas Cage’s more unhinged, bizarre performances.

From a structural standpoint, you never get a great sense of where Peppermint is going after that 45-minute mark.

The Nun is the fifth film in the series, the second spin-off film, and probably the movie with the least amount of narrative substance given its starting material.

The Happytime Murders has been slammed by many Muppet-centric fan sites as being way too vulgar and shocking.

In indie horror short film, Heartless, our dear killer knows the rules of getting away with murder, but will she?

The Meg has enough awareness, payoffs, and fun to stay afloat and be a better B-movie.

BlackkKlansman and Sorry to Bother You are each unique and fun but with larger messages to say about the black experience and other fissures within our volatile society.