For people of a certain age, author Joe R. Lansdale will likely always be best known as the writer of some of the best Jonah…
In 2002, Olivier Assayas’ Demonlover premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival to a storm of controversy, eclipsed — for better or worse —…
From HAL’s unrelenting utilitarianism to Demon Seed’s Proteus longing for physical form beyond its servers to Margeaux’s desire to understand humans completely by murdering them…
2024 has been a good year for nostalgia-driven genre cinema so far. Especially with the widespread popularity of films like I Saw the TV Glow…
On the heels of this past spring’s I.S.S., the summer season brings us another lower-budget, space-bound indie thriller, Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck in what’s basically…
Two British women, one affluent and childless, the other impoverished and seven months pregnant with a brood already at home, reconnect after decades, having once…
For its first 10 to 15 minutes, Audrey Cummings’ reversionistic feminist Western Place of Bones proves to be surprisingly perplexing. A lot of this initial…
“Starting positions” was the ominous refrain Dale Cooper’s evil doppelgänger used, in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return, during an arm wrestling showdown; something about…
Marx’s vampires and specters; the oil crisis, Vietnam War, and industrializing slaughterhouses as the background for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the commodification of the spectacularly…
Both a post-#MeToo reckoning and a speculative account of the sort of behavior that could have transpired on billionaire Jeffrey Epstien’s island, Blink Twice —…
Before throwing us into the story proper, JT Mollner’s Strange Darling informs us that it was “shot entirely on 35mm film.” It’s a strange inclusion,…
Belgian writer-director Claude Schmitz’s third feature, The Other Laurens, is a dry-humor thriller with an existential neo-noir façade. Viewers expecting a tense, philosophical slow-burn akin…
Pandemic films seem to arrive now with an amount of healthy attendant skepticism. Do we really want to keep reliving these moments of our lives?…
Writing about the recent Cuckoo, critic Willow Maclay asks: “does a film starring a trans person have a duty to say something specific about transness?”…
In 2014, Dawn DaLuise, a renowned Hollywood facialist, was arrested and charged with solicitation for murder after being accused of hiring a hitman to kill…
Karma’s a bitch. JoJo Siwa warned us all earlier this summer, and so the timing of her latest film (and the first that isn’t tween-appealing…
Genre films — especially horror films — tend to let you do a lot with a little. If you can sell a novel idea with…
Will Neil Marshall ever get his mojo back? After finding early success with a run of lean, mean, low-budget face-melters — Dog Soldiers and The Descent are…
The first obvious parallel to Tilman Singer’s horror-thriller Cuckoo is The Shining. A family — Luis (Marton Csokas), the patriarch, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), his teenage…