I remember seeing Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant opening night. I had liked, not loved, Best Picture winner Birdman, but I loathed every minute of his follow-up. Basking in the glow of its own technical achievement, it offered nothing other than Leonardo DiCaprio […]
The following is part of our coverage of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. Women Talking. Titles don’t get more self-explanatory than that. Actor turned prolific writer-director Sarah Polley’s film centers around women discussing what to do when it’s discovered the […]
The following is part of our coverage of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. During a long period between 2000-2001 in Tehran, Iran, sixteen women fell victim to a sadistic serial killer. Because these women were sex workers, the public turned […]
The hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change. At least, that’s what Dwayne Johnson wants to believe. Dating back to nearly 2007, Johnson has been hungry to bring Shazam’s nemesis and anti-hero in his own right, […]
And so comes to a close the David Gordon Green sequel trilogy experiment. The back-to-basics approach of the inaugural feature, 2018’s Halloween, had a positive reception at the time. Over time, it’s begun to face criticism for essentially repeating the […]
Freddy. Jason. Michael Myers. Leatherface. Pinhead. Ghostface. The pantheon of legendary slasher villains is far from empty. Nevertheless, going into the 2020s, audiences were ready for new blood. Ask and ye shall receive: Pearl from X and her own spin-off/prequel […]
DC Comics adaptations are in crisis. With the recent cancellation of Batgirl, even movies that are fully filmed are getting canned. There are no sacred cows here to WB Discovery. When was the last time we heard news on a […]
How does one even describe the odd place Amsterdam has in the pop culture landscape? Hollywood certainly wants you to think it’s a big A-list star-studded extravaganza that rarely gets released anymore. The Taylor Swift fandom likely is celebrating their subject of […]
In August, I fulfilled a long-time dream of mine: seeing Rob Zombie perform live. Zombie’s concerts are known for the macabre, energetic rock ‘n’ roll emitting from his band. His films, likewise, exude similar showmanship, bathing in perverse grit. Rob […]
A common talking parroted around film circles is that “Avatar is unmemorable.” That James Cameron’s 2009 film, which grossed close to $3 billion to become the highest-grossing movie of all time and is on the cusp of spawning a whopping four […]
