Beyond the Visible gives voice to long ignored work of Hilma af Klint. She was a visionary artist who created stunning abstract pieces long before the term actually existed. (In fact, the film even makes the bold claim that her work predates that of abstract hero, Wassily Kandinsky.) Spiritualism inspired af Klint, as well as […]
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No other genre makes moviegoers hearts race like horror. Audiences flock to horror flicks for the violent, bloody, heart-stopping thrills, but the best scary stories are subversive. They use tales of ghouls and ghosts to confront issues too painful to discuss openly. Tigers Are Not Afraid (from writer/director Issa López’) adopts a dark-fantasy premise to highlight the […]
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Sometimes going back to a popular well can have mixed results… Now on DVD and Blu-Ray, Season One of the new relaunch of Creepshow (A Shudder Original) is basically like any anthology, there’s some good, some mediocre and some bad. It’s the most fun you’ll ever have being scared!!! From show runner Greg Nicotero (The […]
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Sometimes you’ve got to get a little meta… It’s taken us a minute to get to this one and while having some separation has probably calmed my reaction to this one; One Cut Of The Dead is one hell of a funny, self referential and a little self involved look at the genre that isn’t […]
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“I guess it’s a… a farewell to arms.” In 1989, Timothy Dalton returned as James Bond for the second and sadly final time, as had quickly proved to be one of my favorites. John Glenn returned to direct his fifth, and last 007 film, and both of them took the character in a new way. […]
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Is there a space where sexual freedom for the LGBTQ community and conservative Christian values can thrive together? If so, what does it look like? These are the questions that lie at the heart of For They Know Not What They Do, the new documentary by Daniel Karslake. In the wake of the landmark U.S. […]
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There are many different perspectives on the horrors of war… Greyhound takes us back into the conflict of World War II as writer and star Tom Hanks gives audiences an absolutely compelling chase thriller that took place far too often on the Atlantic during these times. In the early days of WWII, an international convoy […]
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A couple of weeks back, the long-awaited The Last of Us II was released, and was instantly heralded as a welcome addition to any gaming canon. As you can guess, this prompted an immediate contrarian backlash. I have no way of qualifying any of these statements due to the fact that I cannot play, and […]
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There’s nothing wrong with a fresh take on a familiar story… The demon possession, second coming of the messiah story has been done before inside the horror genre, but what Belzebuth does allows itself to feel fresh with a Ry sense of humor as it hits the excepted beats of the narrative. In Belzebuth, Special Agent Emanuel […]
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Making a film is hard. Getting said film seen can be even harder. This was precisely the case for Cane River, a modest indie flick from the early ‘80s that is finally seeing the light of day almost 40 years after its initial completion. A delicate rural Louisiana-set romance between an African-American couple of differing […]
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