Fright Club: Skeletons in the Closet 2019
It’s that time of year! The Academy celebrates the best work in the industry and we celebrate the early, mainly terrible work of those same nominees. It’s Skeletons in the…read more →
It’s that time of year! The Academy celebrates the best work in the industry and we celebrate the early, mainly terrible work of those same nominees. It’s Skeletons in the…read more →
Loveless by Hope Madden There is a deep and deeply Russian melancholy to the films of Andrey Zvyagintsev. Loveless opens on a sweet-faced boy meandering playfully through the woods between…read more →
It’s Oscar week, people. Not the week of the Oscars, but the week the Oscar winners and nominees come home to us. All told, five Oscar nominees (including the best…read more →
It is one hell of a week in home entertainment, people. Oscar nominees aplenty! No reason to leave home even one time this week. Woot! Click the film title for…read more →
You know what? This year’s batch of Oscar hopefuls have made some genuinely excellent horror movies. Richard Jenkins starred in not only the amazing Bone Tomahawk, but also the underseen…read more →
by Rachel Willis This year’s batch of Oscar nominated animated shorts are varied in both style and subject matter. They run the gauntlet of emotion from tortured to heartwarming to…read more →
by Hope Madden This year’s Oscar-nominated live-action shorts take on an international flavor. Entries from Hungary, Switzerland, Denmark, France and Spain talk culture, loneliness, oppression and racism in a spate…read more →
Son of Saul by Hope Madden When Son of Saul, Laszlo Nemes’s blistering Holocaust drama, opens, you will think the film is out of focus. Hold tight, because Nemes has…read more →
by Hope Madden and George Wolf What a day. What a (mostly) lovely day! Yes, Mad Max: Fury Road came up big in this year’s Oscar nominations. In fact, it’s…read more →
We want to recommend a couple of lovely Irish tales for this week’s queue, beginning with the Academy Award nominated Song of the Sea. This beautifully watercolored dream mixes modern…read more →