There’s Someone Inside Your House
With Halloween around the corner, slashers and thrillers are being released at their usual pace this time of year. And with Netflix keeping their promise to release a film every [...]
Possession (Spotlight Review) 40th Anniversary!
Now being re-released theatrically with a pristine 4k restoration in celebration of its 40th anniversary by Metrograph Pictures, the cult following of Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 psychological horror film Possession should [...]
The Velvet Underground
A innovative, often informative chronicle of the iconic rock band The Velvet Underground who gained notoriety during the 1960s counterculture movement, The Velvet Underground is the first documentary (and tenth [...]
Bergman Island
Mia Hansen-Løve follows up her acclaimed and artful French dramas Things to Come, Eden, and Goodbye First Love, with Bergman Island, another ambiguous, clever, dreamy, and meta-driven script she also [...]
Halloween Kills
Delivering on its amusingly blunt title, Halloween Kills does exactly that; it kills, and quite brutally. Through all the previous eleven films in the franchise -- ten, if you exclude [...]
The Last Duel
In its visual grandeur and operatic style, The Last Duel, Ridley Scott's highly anticipated medieval epic that Scott has attempted to recapture the glory of his Oscar winning Best Picture [...]
2011 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2011–10 Year Anniversary
Each time I do these retrospectives I go all the way back and revisit many films that were released in the given year. I found that there was a common [...]
The Addams Family 2
The Addams are a family who, despite their bizarre attributes, continue to live a “normal” life amongst the many people who see how idiosyncratic this family really is. But they [...]
Lamb
Sensory, sporadically goofy and at times ominous, Valdimar Johansson's debut feature Lamb is a folklore surrealist dark comedy/horror thriller that delivers some great impact with arresting visuals and strong performances [...]
No Time To Die
Every generation has their James Bond(s). For my father it was Sean Connery as a kid, Roger Moore as a teen. The goofier gadgets, bodacious woman and campy storylines were [...]