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Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 1/31/23. In the opening moments of David Cronenberg‘s Crimes of the Future, we see a capsized cruise ship abandoned and half-submerged in coastal waters. In the following scene, we see a small...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 1/17/23. As of Spin Me Round, I’ve now only seen two of Jeff Baena‘s five feature films (the other being 2017’s The Little Hours). But I’m starting to get a handle on what...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/29/22: It’s become increasingly clear that no movie will suffer from having Aubrey Plaza in it. That’s not to say she’s never been in a bad movie–remember that Child’s Play reboot?–but she’s never made...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/22/22: Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Medusa opens with a solo interpretative dance performance to Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Cities in Dust” until, a couple minutes in, the camera pulls back to reveal...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/8/22: It’s a fact, overlooked or denied by most of your more superficial film critics, that it’s possible for a bad screenplay to be saved by good direction and filmmaking....
This week, we’re figuring out horror. Here’s what else we’re doing: In addition to figuring out horror, we’re ending Halloween, surveying home video releases, raising hell and battling jellyfish. Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/1/22: Mamoru Hosoda is in love with the outcasts, the loners, and the beautifully imperfect introverts who yearn for nothing but love and acceptance. His characters reconcile this massive rift...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 10/25/22: With Breaking, director Abi Damaris Corbin pulls a bit of a trick on you. With its cool color palette, handheld cinematography (courtesy of Doug Emmett, whose credits include Sorry to Bother You and The Edge...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 10/18/22: Somehow, the standard for comedy in major studio pictures has sunk so low that a jaded “Really?” can completely take the place of an actual joke or retort and...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 9/27/22: Any film genre that has been around for a while will naturally start to look inward. Its first instinct will be to comment on the more superficial elements of...
