Fright Club: Best of George A. Romero
Today we salute a man whose career teems with ideas that have been both universal and wildly ahead of their time. There may be no horror filmmaker who’s had more…read more →
Archive For July, 2016
Barr and/or Bust
Roseanne for President! by Matt Weiner You can’t argue that Roseanne Barr has lost her timing. As we enter what political scientists call the “Holy mother of God there isn’t…read more →
Sister Sister
Into the Forest by Cat McAlpine T.S. Elliot seemed to prophecy that “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with a whimper”. Into the…read more →
Play on Player
Nerve by Hope Madden Unfriended meets Pokemon Go in the online thrill ride Nerve. Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman like to reflect the evolution of society’s culture of technology.…read more →
Bourne This Way
Jason Bourne by George Wolf If you’ve got some asses that need kicking, Christmas comes early this year. Jason Bourne is back, with a sack full of fuzzy memories and…read more →
Mom Genes
Bad Moms by Hope Madden A raunchy comedy that peels away all the precious nonsense associated with motherhood and isn’t afraid to get a bit nasty – this feels like…read more →
Double Shot of Mid-Ohio Noir to Screen at Drexel
Ohio-based filmmaker Robert Bates will bring two short slices of local film noir to the newly-renovated Drexel Theatre Wednesday night, July 27th. The Reckoning, Bates’s latest, will see its world…read more →
Fright Club: Military Horror
War is hell, which makes it obvious fodder for horror films. It’s kind of amazing there aren’t more that really mine the carnage and insanity of battle, but those that…read more →
Red Versus Blue
Equals by Cat McAlpine In a blue-white landscape where form follows function, director and story writer Drake Doremus must choose between head and heart. He chooses heart, every time. I’ve…read more →
The Frontier Strikes Back
Star Trek Beyond by George Wolf Kirk. Spock. Bones. Wisecracks, a villain, and some heroic space swashbuckling. We’re pretty familiar with the Star Trek setup by now, and three flicks…read more →