Nothing says “prestige horror” like a score by Philip Glass. His towering, choral, staccato music is unmistakable from the very beginning of Candyman. And, in retrospect, the fact that the movie is directed by Bernard Rose, whose other best known...
Congratulations! With your recent purchase of a brand new Roku/Apple TV/Amazon Fire Stick you’re ready to – as Obi-Wan Kenobi said – take your first step into a larger world. That larger world is, of course, the world of cord...
This week we welcome our friend Nora to lead an over-all history and general discussion about the way mental illness is portrayed in the movies. So join us as we hit some key films over the decades as well as...
For subconscious reasons that I’m sure are clearer to my therapist than they are to me, I feel that I should – like always – preface this list by severely undercutting my credibility as an expert and pre-empting your questions...
I will admit that I have not seen my usual volume of new films in 2017. My project to watch the Battleship Pretension listener selected top 100 movies ate into a lot of the time I usually would have gone...
10. War for the Planet of the Apes The third film of Fox’s new Apes films is the brilliant culmination of what this series has been driving toward. For the first time in the franchise a film is entirely told...
Nominations for the first Annual Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards: BEST PICTURE The Big Sick Colossal Call Me By Your Name Get Out I, Tonya Lady Bird Molly’s Game The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside...
Guillermo del Toro has a knack—maybe a passion—for giving us sets and locations that are grand but, at the same time, grimy, soiled or ruined (this goes back at least as far as the abandoned subway set in Mimic). Somehow,...
If you’re a fan of Michael Dowse’s shockingly great Goon (in other words, if you’ve seen Goon), you’ll probably be heartened by the opening scenes of Jay Baruchel’s Goon: Last of the Enforcers. The scenes of hockey are lively, the...
This is my twelfth Comic-Con and, for all I know, it may be my last. I certainly wasn’t feeling that familiar jolt of con joy on Thursday morning as I navigated multiple lines that moved or didn’t move with little...