One of my favorite annual events is the Exhumed FIlms Ex-fest, in which the titular programming collective assembles 12 straight hours of exploitation films, each
Category: Reviews
Problemista is bizarre, funny, and…educational
Not only is Problemista a very funny comedy, but it’s one of the better ruminations on the modern immigrant experience I’ve seen. Written and directed
Love Lies Bleeding is a star-making thriller unlike anything you’ve seen before
To watch Love Lies Bleeding is to watch one of its leads, Katy O’Brian, become a superstar in real time. She shares the screen with
Frogman is a found footage frightfest that isn’t afraid to get weird
The charm wielded by the “Cryptid Town” is indeed bizarre, appealing simultaneously to our sense of wonder and our wallets. The marriage of imagination and
The Holdovers is a new American classic (and is currently available on blu-ray)
Until very recently I was all in on Cillian Murphy taking home this year’s Best Actor Oscar. All of the nominees are deserving, but his
Dune: Part Two is so good that it side-stepped my extreme distaste for sand
It’s pretty awesome that Dune, a famously hard-to-adapt science fiction novel, is finally getting the proper film treatment commensurate to the amount of detail and
The Teachers’ Lounge is a twisted and thoughtful tale of good intentions gone bad
I’ve only once set foot in a middle school not as a student. It was at least a decade after I had graduated, and I
Hundreds of Beavers is impressive and hilarious
Warner Brothers CEO Loserface Buttfarts, I mean David Zaslav, pissed off everybody and surprised nobody a few weeks back when he pulled the plug on
Madame Web is astonishingly bad
Whenever a movie like Madame Web comes around that no one expects to be any good and thus everyone feels okay poo-pooing, it’s in my
Lisa Frankenstein is sweet-natured horror — ya know, for the kids
When there’s a holiday devoted solely to being in love, those who see themselves as perpetually lonely like to lean into their feelings and say