I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of August 19
Wow, there are a lot of movies coming home this week. Some of them are so bad. Just really, extraordinarily bad. But hidden in there are a couple of decent…read more →
Fright Club: Missing Persons
There is something primally terrifying in the idea of missing persons - losing someone or…read more →
Fright Club: Missing Persons
Fright Club
Tramps Like Us
Blinded by the Light by George Wolf Warning: this article contains some serious pro-Boss bias.…read more →
Tramps Like Us
New In Theaters
Thump, Thump, Draaaag
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Hope Madden Was there a story you…read more →
Thump, Thump, Draaaag
New In Theaters
A Woman’s Place
The Kitchen by George Wolf Looking for trouble? You’ll find plenty in The Kitchen. Looking…read more →
A Woman’s Place
New In Theaters
Leap of Faith
Them That Follow by George Wolf When a way of life not only makes you…read more →
Leap of Faith
New In Theaters
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Fright Club: Missing Persons
There is something primally terrifying in the idea of missing persons – losing someone or being lost. Where are they and what is happening to them? No mater which side…read more →
One Is the Loneliest Number
One Child Nation by George Wolf A heartbreaking, sometimes devastating and absolutely necessary history lesson, One Child Nation turns a filmmaker’s very personal story into a profile of shared helplessness.…read more →
Screening Room: Blinded By the Light, Good Boys, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Honeyland
Another week chock full of movie options. Guilty pleasures to disappointments, poetic fables to fanboy riots. Check them out:
Rich People Problems
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Hope Madden Low-key visionary director Richard Linklater, inexhaustible talent Cate Blanchett and wildly popular source material exploring creativity, motherhood and existential angst—Where’d You Go, Bernadette…read more →
Fin Again Begin Again
47 Meters Down: Uncaged by George Wolf Two years ago, Johannes Roberts proved he could craft some fine sharky thrills amid the soggy dialog and questionable logic of 47 Meters…read more →
Queen Bee
Honeyland by Hope Madden Cinematic in structure, narrative in its storytelling, all of it expressed with a visual flair that give it the sense of poetry—Honeyland is no ordinary documentary.…read more →
Adult Education
Good Boys by George Wolf So apparently kids today get names like Brixlee, Soren and Thor. That’s new. And when puberty hits, they pretend they’re plenty world wise, are tempted…read more →
Nightmares Fest Unveils “Early 13”
Though it’s only a few years old, Columbus, Ohio’s Nightmares Film Festival (NFF) has not only established itself as a can’t miss event for horror fans, but one with revered…read more →
Tramps Like Us
Blinded by the Light by George Wolf Warning: this article contains some serious pro-Boss bias. Like, copious amounts. Because a Springsteen fanatic like myself reviewing Blinded by the Light is…read more →