Wendell & Wild, the first feature from director Henry Selick since 2009's Coraline, is an excitingly ambitious movie. It's of a piece with his previous stop-motion work in that it combines family-film sensibilities with macabre imagery in a way sure…
Read moreIt’s been too long since a show like “Masters of Horror” allowed twisted auteurs a platform to explore the themes and images that haunt them. Enter Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-winning director who has gifted his fans with Netflix’s “Guillermo…
Read moreHome Movie Reviews ‘The Pale Blue Eye' Review: Christian Bale and Henry Melling Get at the Tell-Tale Heart of an Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Scott Cooper expertly adapts Louis Bayard’s novel, with Christan Bale and Harry Melling at the heart…
Read moreIn Season 1 of Netflix Japanese battle royale series Alice in Borderland, two elements stood out: one was that director Shinsuke Sato made sure that a huge number of the frames and blocking made the series look and feel like…
Read moreAtrabilious is Will Parker’s (aka Willliam Atticus Parker) third film, behind one short and another feature-length title. The impressive thing is that the writer-director is only 19. So, does this mystery-comedy-thriller show the signs of an auteur finding their voice?…
Read moreLast summer “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s limited series skewering the lives of the elite while on vacation at the titular resort in Hawaii became a cultural phenomenon, snagging ten Emmy awards. Now an anthology, Season 2 finds a (mostly)…
Read moreHome Movie Reviews American Murderer Review: Great Cast Gets Wasted On A Tedious Script [SDIFF] American Murderer may look good on paper, but it’s a dull and lazy interpretation of a story about one of the country’s most fascinating criminals.…
Read moreHome Movie Reviews ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Review: Naomi Ackie Shines in a Musical Biopic That Does Not As it turns out, even the story of one of the most enduring musical talents in history can become…
Read moreHouse of the Dragon was easily one of my favorite shows of this year, so when given the opportunity to review the Season 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, I jumped at it. After all, there were rumors of deleted scenes,…
Read moreOf all the horror movies to remake, Tubi could do a lot worse than 1980’s “Terror Train.” Sure, the original is one of the countless slashers made in the wake of John Carpenter‘s 1978 classic “Halloween” and its massive success. But it’s also…
Read moreWith overt ties to slavery, Confederate statues are an easy target for removal as America slowly undergoes its institutional racial reckoning. Directors Sara Newens and Mina T. Son’s documentary Racist Trees attempts to look at something far more obscure but no less…
Read moreCreated by Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns, 2019’s Scare Package failed to gain the traction that other Shudder exclusive releases usually get. The main reason for that is that Scare Package is an anthology made by horror fans and…
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