On the Wikipedia page for the serial killer Rodney Alcala, there is a 145-word entry under the subheading “Dating Game appearance,” which recounts an unsettling…
In Caddo Lake’s hectic opening moments, Paris (Dylan O’Brien) fails to save his mother, trapped underwater in a car she has driven off a bridge…
Anytime Park Chan-wook makes a movie, it’s an event. One of the most exciting and formally striking auteurs to hail from South Korea — and…
There have been entire documentaries made about screen adaptations of Stephen King’s writing. We’re up to something like 80 or 90 individual movies and shows…
Coming 12 years after the first V/H/S, V/H/S/Beyond continues the well-established formula of the franchise: anthologized, supposedly found footage horror shorts, threaded together with a…
Foodie television and film is having a bit of a moment, in no small part thanks to The Bear entering the zeitgeist surely, but also…
The greatest sin a basketball film or TV series can commit is to enlist actors who can’t actually play basketball. More than any other sport,…
In many ways, road trips are the perfect vehicle for self-discovery — both in life and in cinema. Removed from the distractions and routines of…
One of the more amazing things about returning to Rosemary’s Baby after its release decades ago, or even watching it for the first time since…
It can often be difficult to evaluate the work of a director who is branching out from their niche. With Jon Bois, he has worked…
Wolfs is so confident that it can entirely coast on the incredible chemistry between its two leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that it doesn’t…
Sometimes there’s pleasure to be taken in genre familiarity if the muscles are appropriately and well-flexed. An effectively written voiceover, haunted protagonist, seductive femme fatale…
At the end of the very first (of many) verbal arguments in Azazel Jacobs’ His Three Daughters, an emotionally potent chamber drama about three estranged…
A short 15 years ago, in a(n almost) post-Harry Potter world, it looked as if the young adult SFF wave was poised to be the…
When HBO greenlit The Sopranos in 1997, nobody could have possibly foreseen the seismic influence and enduring cultural impact the show’s legacy would leave in…
The first thing you need to understand about The Deliverance is that said deliverance is different from an exorcism — no intercessor is needed. At…
Jeremy Saulnier’s new thriller Rebel Ridge doesn’t waste a moment of time getting wound up. Immediately, Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, in a terrific performance that…
Six years ago Zia Anger’s live cinema presentation My First Film (from which the film My First Film is adapted) sparked a fire around her…
There’s a reason spacecrafts are often the setting of horror stories: they are the ultimate locked room. No matter what threatens you inside, there is…