Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Horror
The Innocents (2021)
Norwegian director Eskil Vogt got a double-honor at this year’s Academy Awards, first by getting a writing nomination along with his collaborator Joachim Trier for The World Person in the World and also saw his film nominated for Best International Feature. That film, about the adventures of a young woman that could easily be written […]
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2022)
Sometimes, just for laughs, I go YouTube and watch those videos where armchair eggheads like myself take a piece of filmmaking and trying to intellectualize it – in all honesty, I’ve seen enough analysis on The Shining to last me the rest of my life. I love hearing film analysis which either gives me a […]
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 […]
