A pretty atmospheric and eerie slow burn domestic horror flick about a train-wreck of a woman who goes home to visit her estranged mom. Mom is acting a little funny too… and so are the locals… but maybe it’s just … Continue reading
As I watched The Reef: Stalked, I started getting this weird realization that I kind of liked it… and my heart sank. And it kept sinking the longer the movie went. Did this mean *gulp* I’d have to write a … Continue reading
Piggy tells the story of an overweight teen girl who is ruthlessly mocked by her bullies and constantly judged – whether cruelly or dismissively – by the adults in her life. When she sees a couple of her bullies kidnapped … Continue reading
Having just watched the original Austrian Goodnight Mommy, I went into the American remake hoping it was better than the ratings suggest. And what I got was a defanged, sanitized, and far more mainstream version of the same plot… but … Continue reading
What if you were in a home invasion movie and didn’t realize it? That seems to be the awkward and uncomfortable premise of Who Invited Them… a movie that trades on our civility to drag a simple story out until … Continue reading
It’s not that I disliked the original 1990 tv miniseries of IT… it was perfect fine in a made-for-tv-in-the-90s sort of way. But that was back when made-for-tv wasn’t exactly a medal of honor. It was edgy and bloody for … Continue reading
It kind of breaks my heart to give this such an average score. I was really digging this film’s actorly vibe, enjoying the slow crepe towards whatever reveal it was aiming for. And then… it just just kept creeping and, … Continue reading
I Came By is a Netflix film about a guerilla graffiti artist who breaks into the homes of the rich and powerful in order to leave his called card. One night he stumbles on the underground predilections of a former … Continue reading
Funny Page is not a movie I enjoyed watching, but it is a movie that’s darn good at what it’s doing. And what it’s doing is showing us an underbelly of America full of strange, grimy people living their lives … Continue reading
Spin Me Round stars Alison Brie as a restauranteur who is invited to a manager’s retreat in Italy. She meets a gaggle of other employees and starts to make friends… and then starts to fall for at least one other … Continue reading