Watching Bones and All I was reminded of a wonderful Shel Silverstein poem called Masks, reprinted here without any permission from anyone (if it’s a
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The Menu is a deliciously devious thriller that will give you something to chew on
Diners who eat at the legendary Hawthorne are willing to pay top dollar for a multitude of reasons. First and foremost, the restaurant itself is
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio warmed my cynical heart
Filmmaking craft aside, I’ve never really had a fondness for Pinocchio. This is likely because the donkey scene scared the ever-loving fuck out of me
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has extended my interest in the MCU
When I found out that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was two hours and forty one goddamn minutes long, the middling excitement I had for the
The Retaliators is a surprising genre mashup with plenty of heart and NuMetal
If you gave me just the opening scene of The Retaliators and a million guesses, I would not be able to predict the movie that
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms makes good on the promise of its title
So often we refer to any movie with a little bit of goop and a fair amount of degeneracy to be reminiscent of John Waters,
Philadelphia Film Festival Review – Something in the Dirt
For my money, there is no more exciting voice in sci-fi cinema (and cinema in general) than the duo of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson,
Philadelphia Film Festival Review – Christmas Bloody Christmas
A neon lit, blood-drenched, metal-as-fuck action slasher with a killer lead and more smashed skulls and mangled faces than I could have ever hoped for.
Philadelphia Film Festival Review – Kids vs. Aliens
We need more “aliens attack” movies. While I love a good extraterrestrial movie that explores the larger considerations of what it would mean for visitors
Philadelphia Film Festival Review – Holy Spider
Ali Abbasi has completed one of the biggest genre jumps in the history of journeyman filmmakers, and done so between two excellent films. His previous