Passenger
“Sometimes when you get haunted, it’s like stepping on gum. You… take it with you.” So said famous (and infamous) demonologist and ghost hunter Ed Warren, of The Conjuring fame, in the [...]
Obsession
Magic in all of its darkest forms appears to be in the zeitgeist again. Hollywood seems to go through phases of preoccupation with exploring the depths and potential costs of, [...]
The Devil Wears Prada 2
If you order a daiquiri and then expect Dom Perignon, the joke is on you. At the same time, you can have standards regarding the quality of that daiquiri, setting [...]
Normal
I absolutely love quirky stories set in small-town America, where darkness, secrets, and revelations always ripple under the surface like a giant sea creature sensed but not seen, until the [...]
They Will Kill You
In Kirill Sokolov’s new film, They Will Kill You, Zazie Beetz plays Asia, a young woman who escapes an abusive father with her young sister Maria, played by Myha’la. When the [...]
Undertone
The horror genre has spawned many sub-genres over the years, and it can be fun to see the various creative experiments and avenues horror provides filmmakers. But like all experiments, [...]
Pillion
It is the duty of storytellers to explore various areas of humanity and its behavior, ideally without judgement or bias to achieve the most honest portrayal of their subject as [...]
Wuthering Heights
Like the newest Dracula film by Luc Besson, the latest Wuthering Heights seeks to reinvent a timeless classic novel that has spawned countless film and television adaptations, each tackling different aspects of the [...]
Dracula
It is beyond the scope of a review to explore and analyze exactly what it is about certain stories that demand to be retold not just every century but often [...]