Significant Others is a sci-fi/thriller/horror flick about a couple who go on a hiking trip in the Pacific Northwest. Only something isn’t quite right with the woods. Something eerie, something out-of-place. The first half of this movie is a very … Continue reading
The Streisand Effect at work! Thanks to freak-out conservative pundit culture war alarmists, I found out that this movie exists… and that Velma is totally gay! Finally the forty years of in-jokes have proven true. Regular Sherlock Holmses with the … Continue reading
Little did I know when I wrote my review of X earlier this year and said it was often only creepy if you thought old people are creepy, they’d go and release a movie that shrugged, rolled up its sleeves, … Continue reading
I suspect this will not be the popular opinion, but I enjoyed this sequel a tad more than the original. I just rewatched the first one as someone who saw it back in the 90s but had no nostalgia for … Continue reading
Smile is a mash-up of at least a half dozen other horror movies you’ve already seen. And it sadly seems to think it invented the genre all by itself. What else can explain the ridiculous almost two hour runtime when … Continue reading
On the upcoming season of So You Think You Can Action Star, watch luminaries such as Joey King, Bob Odenkirk, and our latest contender Allison Janney trade in their usual Hollywood stardom for a life of kicking butt and taking … Continue reading
Three Thousand Years of Longing has a lot of interesting and fascinating ideas but it really isn’t about those ideas. Instead, it’s more about a handful of short stories circulating about a relationship that isn’t half as interesting as those … Continue reading
Technically, The Invitation is a little hard to talk about without spoilers… the movie’s structure is obviously hiding something. But the trailers already spoil everything… so thanks advertising department. So I’ll go ahead and spoil it too, I guess (starting … Continue reading
That’s Amor is a new Netflix romantic comedy about a recently single (and unemployed) woman who takes a cooking class and catches the idea of the Spanish cooking instructor. That’s kind of literally it. There isn’t a gimmick, nobody is … Continue reading
Glorious is a Shudder original movie I was rooting for. A wonderfully creative and down-‘n-dirty use of a low budget single location that saves them the money to hire the voice of JK Simmons. That’s smart… and I dig the … Continue reading