Halloween Countdown, Day 31: The Witch
The Witch The unerring authenticity of The Witch makes it the most unnerving horror film in years. Ideas of gender inequality, sexual awakening, slavish devotion to dogma, and isolationism roil…read more →
Archive For October, 2016
Halloween Countdown, Day 30: Hellraiser
Hellraiser (1987) “The box…you opened it. We came.” Man, those cenobites were scary cool, weren’t they? Hellraiser, Clive Barker’s feature directing debut, worked not only as a grisly splatterfest, but…read more →
Fright Club: When Animals Attack
How is it we haven’t done this one yet? So many to choose from – most of them bad. Grizzly? Or Grizzly 2: The Concert? You know how we feel…read more →
Halloween Countdown, Day 29: Nosferatu
Nosferatu (1922) Best vampire ever. Not the seductive, European aristocrat, cloaked and mysterious, oh no. With Count Orlock, filmmaker F. W. Murnau explores something more repellant, casting an actor who…read more →
Halloween Countdown, Day 28: Zombieland
Zombieland (2009) Zombieland is quite possibly the perfect movie. Just when Shaun of the Dead convinced me that those Limey Brits had create the best-ever zombie romantic comedy, it turns…read more →
Abandon All Hope
Inferno by Matt Weiner Good versus evil. Heaven versus hell. The first 15 minutes of Inferno versus the last 105 minutes… Director Ron Howard’s latest Dan Brown adaptation reprises Tom…read more →
Portraits and Landscapes
Certain Women by Hope Madden Writer/director Kelly Reichardt sees something extraordinary in the simple daily struggle of ordinary people. Her latest film, Certain Women, again observes with genuine interest the…read more →
Der Samurai
Der Samurai (2014) Writer/director Till Kleinert’s atmospheric Der Samurai blends Grimm Brother ideas with Samurai legend to tell a story that borders on the familiar but manages always to surprise.…read more →
(Here’s the Story) Morning Glory
Oasis: Supersonic by George Wolf For any aspiring musician, it all starts with a dream. “I want the severed head of Phil Collins in my ‘fridge by the end of…read more →
Halloween Countdown, Day 25: The Shining
The Shining It’s isolated, it’s haunted, you’re trapped, but somehow nothing feels derivative and you’re never able to predict what happens next. It’s Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece rendition of Stephen King’s…read more →