Delicious Dish
Raw by Hope Madden Much has been made of barf bags and fainting during screenings of writer/director Julia Ducournau’s feature debut, Raw. A festival favorite, the film has been plagued…read more →
Archive For March, 2017
Major Upgrade
Ghost in the Shell by George Wolf For all the celebrated vision of the 1995 Japanese anime standard Ghost in the Shell, it resembled the inspirations of a teenage boy…read more →
Identity Crisis
The Blackcoat’s Daughter by Hope Madden Winter break approaches at a Catholic New England boarding school. Snow piles up outside, the buildings empty, yet Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy…read more →
Glen Baby Glen Ross
The Boss Baby by Hope Madden Imaginative only child Tim (Miles Christopher Bakshi) loves his life. He loves to play with his mom (Lisa Kudrow) and dad (Jimmy Kimmel), loves…read more →
Brutally Vital
Land of Mine by Rachel Willis Land of Mine is almost impossible to watch. Not because it’s bad. On the contrary, it’s an amazingly crafted film that boasts an incredible…read more →
Black Magic Woman
The Love Witch by Hope Madden Anna Biller, everybody. Holy shit. Wes Anderson with a Black Mass fetish and a feminist point of view, Biller wrote/directed/produced/edited/set-designed/costume-designed/music-supervised the seductive sorcery headtrip…read more →
So That Happened…Local Wildlife
Local Wildlife by Hope Madden Did you hear the one about the Southern Ohio man who purchased a mountain lion at a flea market and promptly lost it? The punchline…read more →
Life: It’s What’s for Dinner
Life by Matt Weiner Life comes at you fast. Real fast, when it’s a hyper-intelligent Martian lifeform hell-bent on survival. In Life, a seemingly unstoppable alien terrorizes the isolated crew…read more →
Ride or Die
CHIPS by Hope Madden How many of you remember that, in 70s cop shows, cars blew up all the time? Without that knowledge, one of two running jokes in CHIPS…read more →
Shout at the Devil
The Devil’s Candy by Hope Madden Hard rock music makes for both an evocative soundtrack and theme for horror. It possesses a throbbing, angry darkness perfectly suited to imagery, behavior…read more →