Hello Cleveland!
Haunt by Hope Madden Have you ever noticed how adorable Browns fans are during pre-season every year? Every year! There is always reason for optimism. That’s how I feel about…read more →
horror
Oh, Hell
Hellarious by Hope Madden Short films rarely get their due, and getting an audience is rarer still. Any opportunity to sit down with a set of shorts that made a…read more →
Day for Night of the Living Dead
One Cut of the Dead by Hope Madden For about 37 minutes, you may feel like Shin’ichirô Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead delivers, cleverly enough, on a very familiar…read more →
Even the Losers
It Chapter 2 by Hope Madden and George Wolf Two years ago, director Andy Muschietti and writer Gary Dauberman accomplished quite a magic act. They made the film It, not…read more →
Bird of Prey
The Nightingale by Hope Madden There is a moment in George Miller’s 2015 action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. The empty bridal chamber is revealed quickly. Scrawled on the wall:…read more →
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 →
Need a Lift?
Luz by Hope Madden Fast, brave and baffling, Tilman Singer’s experimental demon thriller Luz enters hot, exits quickly and leaves you puzzled. In a good way. The film begins with…read more →
Fright Club: Body Fluids in Horror Movies
Viscosity! That’s the name of the game today, and it’s a messy, messy game to play. Today we slip and slide through the sloppiest movies we could find as we…read more →
Field of Nightmares
Midsommar by Hope Madden and George Wolf Just two features into filmmaker Ari Aster’s genre takeover and already you can detect a pattern. First, he introduces a near-unfathomable amount of…read more →
A Different Kind of Toy Story
Annabelle Comes Home by Hope Madden The first conflict, first specter of the Conjuring universe was a hideous, braid-wearing doll haunting hip Seventies roommates. Ever wonder what happened after Lorraine…read more →