Lasciate ogne speranza, voi chi’intrate. How did it come to this?… continue
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune was my favorite film of 2021. It was a euphoric experience.… continue
To paraphrase one character: Comments! Reviews! They haven’t been kind to Drive-Away Dolls, which represents Ethan Coen’s first foray into fiction as a solo filmmaker.… continue
In the Class of … series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating their 20th, 30th or 40th anniversary of initial release this year — four from 1984, four from 1994 and four from 2004.… continue
Not unlike a burger at Arby’s or whatever KFC was doing with the Chizza, Madame Web is a quizzical aberration of capitalism.… continue
Johnnie To’s career took off in the late 1990s and early- to mid-2000s, with films like Breaking News, Election (2005), Throw Down and The Mission (1999).… continue
There are few simpler cinematic pleasures than watching a cadre of ripped, heavily armed guys falling face-first into the shit and fighting their way back out.… continue
Lights Out doesn’t break the mold of video-on-demand action cinema. Not by a long shot.… continue
I’ve written pretty extensively about the Fuck, Yeah! Film Festival over the years.… continue
The closest movie theater to the small Illinois town I called home for 18 years was 20 minutes away.… continue
Filmed in Scotland circa 2020 and finding its way to theatrical release on Friday, Out of Darkness is, like countless genre exercises before it and yet to come, a hopeful calling card from its filmmakers to bigger and better things.… continue
Silent Night is a Death Wish-style vigilante revenge riff that manages to deliver the absolute bare minimum of what the subgenre requires in the most half-hearted manner possible.… continue
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