Clearly but cleverly made on a shoestring budget, The Djinn manages to make its limitations a mostly natural element of the story, focusing on one boy’s grief following the death of his mother, his sense of guilt and alienation manifested...
We went into The Empty Man expecting a subpar knockoff of the Slender Man story and were we delightfully surprised to see that it was anything but! Receiving a similar fate to another overlooked horror film that Disney unceremoniously dumped after acquiring Fox, this...
Sincerest apologies for both the episode delay (life stuff) and audio quality of Jim’s vocal track (forgot mic due to life stuff), but if you’re able to forgive us for those hiccups, we are excited to have Council of Zoom‘s Kieran...
For a long time, I had very little interest in seeing Bullitt, a movie I snobbishly thought of as a Steve McQueen vanity project, something he reverse engineered from the idea for a car chase scene. I softened my stance...
1947’s T-Men is one of a flurry of propaganda movies made in the 1940s and 50s with the cooperation of various law enforcement agencies. Like 1949’s Trapped, this one’s about treasury agents tracking counterfeiters. Other examples include 1954’s Down Three...
He may have spent his career wildly hopping genres, from historical melodrama (Raise the Red Lantern) to wuxia epic (Hero) to gangster flick (Shanghai Triad) to Coen brothers remake (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop) to however you...
Americans are so besotted with the notion of our military righteousness that we’ve sat through innumerable terrible, ostensibly patriotic films for decades, stretching back in a long tradition almost as august as the military itself. We’ll endure the worst dialogue,...
Nearly six and a half minutes have passed in George Gallo’s Vanquish before the movie has actually begun in earnest. The ludicrously protracted opening title sequence seems like a blatant stab at dragging the film’s running time over the 90...
Each of the young men and women on board the massive spaceship in Neil Burger’s Voyagers (not counting chaperone/father figure Richard, played by Colin Farrell) has been trained for their crucial mission since birth. Their top flight education is self-evident;...
It’s 1961, the Cold War is at its peak, and, as The Courier’s opening titles remind us, both America and the Soviet Union stand poised on the brink of mutually assured destruction thanks to a buildup in nuclear arms. The...
