If and when they choose to speak out about it, survivors of sexual assault each find their own ways of describing their harrowing memories of the incident that victimized them. Going into survival mode, however, is perhaps one experience several…
Read moreArgentina, 1985 is a deceptively clever bit of filmmaking that, as long as people are willing to traverse that one-inch barrier of subtitles, should be as embraced by casual moviegoers as seasoned cinephiles. It is a based-on-a-true-story legal drama that…
Read moreThe Mean One is the horror-movie reimagining of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, told from the point of view of Cindy Lou Who as an adult. Sounds like a wacky, wonky, fractured fairytale, right? The film starts off…
Read moreIt would be fair to say that DreamWorks Animation is not the juggernaut that it used to be. From the early 2000s up until the early 2010s, the animation studio has given audiences true classics in the medium including the…
Read moreIf there’s a lesson to be learned from David Gordon Green’s trilogy of “Halloween” legacy-quels, it’s to quit while you’re ahead. His 2018 “Halloween” (a direct sequel to the original 1978 masterpiece and a ret-con of its many, many follow-ups) was a surprisingly…
Read moreIn the mid-90s, Michael de Avila’s feature film, Burnzy’s Last Call, was a staple of the Sundance Channel and its exclusivity deal with Blockbuster Video. Now whittled down to one last Blockbuster, de Avila’s movie was seemingly lost forever until he…
Read moreHome TV Reviews 'Doom Patrol' Season 4 Part 1 Review: Brendan Fraser Leads the Silliest Superhero Season Yet There is no show out there that offers both superhero silliness and, among many other things, singing butts that have been resurrected.…
Read moreHome Movie Reviews Ticket To Paradise Review: Roberts & Clooney Charm In Enjoyably Mediocre Rom-Com Ticket to Paradise seems too afraid to dig into the romantic aspects, but it makes up for it by being charming, sweet, and occasionally funny.…
Read moreFirst, a confession: I came to “Personality Crisis: One Night Only,” knowing next to nothing about the New York Dolls or its lead singer, David Johansen. Sure I’d heard of them and heard a fair amount of the Dolls’ music, and Johansen’s, and that of his…
Read moreIt's bloody, and it's about Christmas. What more do you need? Christmas Bloody Christmas makes two promises in its title: it’s going to be about Christmas, and it’s going to be bloody. It succeeds on both fronts to create a…
Read moreWhat started as a story about a precocious young girl tracking down kidnappers has grown and turned into a multiversal event of epic proportions. Of course, if you're at all familiar with Philip Pullman's book series, then you know that…
Read moreINTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2022 REVIEW! Director Ali Abbasi’s third feature, Holy Spider, is based on serial murders that happened in Iran in 2002. Written by Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami, the film is about Saeed Hanaei, a veteran of…
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