Hello, Dankness (2023)
The value of experimental filmmaking is in challenging [...]
Horror
Choose or Die (2022)
It’s funny, right before sitting down to watch Toby Meakins’ Choose or Die, I was lazily moving through the first installment of Zork – I do this a lot. For you kiddies out there, Zork was a text-based adventure from the early 80s that pits you against a vast underground empire where you have to collect […]
Master (2022)
I hate this. I hate this kind of movie. I hate a movie with an inch-thick current topic that then throws it out the window on genre nonsense. Here is the story of two women of color, wading in a world of wealthy whites and how they are treated within a peer group that traditionally […]
Black Friday (2021)
It is hard to dismiss the horror-comedy Black Friday for ambition, however on the level of execution you admit to yourself that it never quite makes it to the winner’s circle. That’s too bad because a Christmas zombie picture featuring horror icons Devon Sawa and Bruce Campbell could and should be a lot better. It […]
We Need To Do Something (2021)
[This review is part of my ongoing coverage of the films screened at Birmingham Alabama’s 23rd Annual Sidewalk Film Festival] Oh yes! We need to do something all right. We need to teach Max Booth III how to write a damn screenplay! His work here is a prime example of how to screw up a […]
Glass (2019)
Glass is, what in comic book terms, would be called a crossover. Therein, two characters from different story-lines are flung together into a crisscrossing story to see how their powers and personalities clash. Very often this happens with a hero and a villain and sometimes with a villain and a villain. In Glass it’s both – two characters […]
Suspiria (2018)
I enter into my review of Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of Suspira knowing full-well that I stand as a lone wolf in my glowing adoration. As of this writing, the movie sits on Rotten Tomatoes at a rather chilly 63% but, personally, I have no use for such metrics. I go to see the movie for […]
Halloween (2018)
At the very start of the 2018 edition of Halloween, I got a brief and very exciting hint that maybe, just maybe I was about to see something new and different. The opening scene involves two amateur journalists who arrive at Warren County Smith’s Grove Sanitarium with the express intent of interviewing Patient AA02. A […]
Insidious: The Last Key
Perhaps no one involved in the making of 2010’s first Insidious movie really understood what an invaluable asset they had in Lin Shaye. Her character, professional psychic Elise Rainer, was the film’s most memorable character, but unfortunately that film ended with her untimely death. Ever since, in three successive sequels, director and series co-creator Leigh […]
