Arcadian
Arcadian, a post-apocalyptic horror film, featuring Nicolas Cage in a (mostly) subdued role and performance, owes a lot to other films of this ilk. There are elements of M. Night [...]
Arcadian, a post-apocalyptic horror film, featuring Nicolas Cage in a (mostly) subdued role and performance, owes a lot to other films of this ilk. There are elements of M. Night [...]
The killer animal subgenre of horror has been on a relatively steady decline recently, and creature features in general, except for some blockbusters, including The Meg, Beast, and Jurassic Park. [...]
The Old Oak, the latest, and possibly the final film, from legendary director Ken Loach, is as vital, stirring, somber, and clear eyed as the rest of his work. Concentrating [...]
An often terrifying and harrowing experience of a not-so-distant future in which fascism and nationalism (I think) wrap themselves in patriotism and two different America's are at war, writer-director Alex [...]
Shades of Italian neo-realism, magical realism, and silent movies are on full display in La Chimera, a moving, observed comedic period drama centered on a Tuscany village that discovers Etruscan [...]
“We worship a messiah who suffered, so by suffering, don’t we move closer to Heaven?” “...No, I don’t think so.” This exchange, between the devout Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and [...]
Scoop, from director Philip Martin, seems to want to be She Said, but fails to spark anywhere near the level of excitement, interest, importance or gravity of that earlier film. While [...]
There is no doubt that John Wick's dynamic, revenge-fueled action odyssey alongside international martial arts spectacles, including The Raid and Ong Bak, have together metamorphized a once-stagnant genre into something [...]
Religious horror is going through a bit of a boom at the moment. From last month's sleeper success, the Sydney Sweeney-starring/produced Immaculate, and now this prequel to the 1976 classic [...]
The Listener, from director Steve Buscemi, is an unusual film in the sense that it has only one onscreen character, a woman calling herself “Beth” who works for an unnamed [...]