I’ve seen so few depictions of demonic possession that did anything for me. Sure there’s The Exorcist’s putrid, profane Regan, Raimi’s gleefully repulsive Deadites, the malignant m...
2024-10-03 19:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post
TCBY Treats. Mr. Buffalo. Pink Dot. Cheesecake Factory. It’s no accident that these symbols of metastasizing chain mediocrity keep popping up throughout Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez S...
2024-09-27 05:53:26 +0000 UTC View Post
“...and at fifty, it stops,” says Harvey (Dennis Quaid), stripping and eating shrimp like he’s Denethor turned loose in a tomato patch. “What stops?” asks Elizabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), ...
2024-09-21 00:28:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that’s how you make a creature feature. Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo is wall to wall hearty genre fare, from the beautifully introduced and fleshed out homo cuculidae, hominid b...
2024-09-18 05:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post
To paraphrase another great North American, there is an idea of a Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), some kind of abstraction, but though you can shake her hand and feel flesh gripping yours,...
2024-09-11 01:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Take First Blood, swirl it together with Chinatown, and you’ve got a pretty solid bead on where director Jeremy Saulnier’s going with Rebel Ridge. His protagonist isn...
2024-09-10 03:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Hong Kong of director Soi Cheang's Limbo is half a step from an open sewer the size of a city, its alleyways choked with garbage, its buildings looming dead and abandoned over filthy s...
2024-09-09 05:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, it's Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW as we continue our month of Hitchcock's masterpieces!
Membership is $10 a month, screenings are 7pm Wednesda...
Tonight at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, it's Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO as we continue our month of Hitchcock's masterpieces!
Membership is $10 a month, screenings are 7pm Wednesdays a...
“I did it,” blubbers Robert (Jesse Plemmons) as he crawls into the arms of his lover, employer, and dom, Raymond (Willem Dafoe). “I did good, I did it, I did it.” The act he’s describing,...
2024-09-02 19:37:58 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been a hell of a year for micro-budget filmmaking, and actor/director Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker is one of the most delightful entries in its weight class. With a visual sen...
2024-08-11 07:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Shot in rich, saturated Super 16mm, Adrien Beau’s The Vourdalak adapts Tolstoy’s short story ‘The Family of the Vourdalak’ into something at once intimately unsettling and imbued w...
2024-08-08 21:08:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The melancholy in lord Corlys’s (Steve Toussaint) voice as he tells Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) the name of his rechristened flagship is the first of the season finale’s reminders of all the death...
2024-08-05 06:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
On a fundamental level, I think if you make a movie in which the Devil is real you should probably be able to conceive of more spectacular acts of evil than nuclear family murder/suicide. It’s cl...
2024-08-02 04:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
‘The Red Sowing’ comes as close to horror movie territory as House of the Dragon has yet dared to tread. Its penultimate sequence in which a slew of prospective bastards of House Targa...
2024-07-29 03:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a lot to be said for the quiet competence with which Damian McCarthy and his team make movies. No lazy shots, no serious goofs in the writing, good solid jump scares with adequate buildup...
2024-07-25 02:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The hottest televised kiss since The Americans segued from emergency dental surgery into sucking face, a cast of characters opening up with exquisite vulnerability as their world falls apa...
2024-07-22 04:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s so much passion and attention to detail evident in every scene of Andrew Rakich’s The Sudbury Devil, such evident love of film and history, and such respect for the real people...
2024-07-20 21:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
“Jailbroken robots, all they do is get high and screw all the time,” says hacker Roberta Williams (Marie Bouvet) of her robotic partner LEM (Thomas Roditi) with a mixture of fondness and irrita...
2024-07-20 00:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Emma. Laena. Queen Alyssa. The dead of House Targaryen crowd in close around prince Daemon, goading and tormenting him, embodying his lusts and insecurities. In his waking dream he takes his brothe...
2024-07-15 04:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t think you could find a more shopworn story template than the one Wes Ball breaks out for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. An uncertain but promising young man, his village ensl...
2024-07-13 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“The King has fallen, we must find him,” says ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) to a soldier kneeling on the field of battle in the shadow of Rook’s Rest. When Cole puts a hand on the man’s...
2024-07-08 02:43:32 +0000 UTC View Post
“ Jesus turned water to wine,” says the nameless nun (Frankie Thorn) to her confessor, discussing her rape at the hands of two young men. “I ought to have turned bitter semen to fertile sperm...
2024-07-07 03:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Special meat. That’s what the world calls human flesh in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh, a gripping, grisly story intimately concerned with the bestowing and revoca...
2024-07-04 21:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
David Foster Wallace once compared depression to standing at a window in a burning house. The only ways to escape are to jump, meaning certain death, or to turn and descend through the flames, with...
2024-07-03 04:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In a Violent Nature opens with a decent oner as the undead mass murderer Johnny (Ry Barrett) claws his way out of the grave and trudges through the forest to recover his dead mother’s ne...
2024-07-02 00:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“I forgive you,” says queen Helaena (Phia Saban) to her mother, the dowager queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke). Alicent is stricken by her daughter’s words, her huge, expressive eyes alive with tum...
2024-07-01 03:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“Another one burnt in the tray, like bread,” sighs the ravaged vampire Daciana (Diana Gheorghian), looking down at her failed fledgling. What is there to cling to when the wind of eternity has ...
2024-06-30 02:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A man tortures his own grief-addled granddaughter with the sight of her beheaded child for the sake of political messaging. A sadistic thug forces a loyal knight to waste his life in order to assua...
2024-06-24 04:40:20 +0000 UTC View Post
You see a lot of overplayed hands in season premieres. Screaming, fighting, bombast, none of which are bad TV on their own, of course, but deployed in the absence of supporting context solely to ra...
2024-06-17 03:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post