“Here it comes,” says casino employee Bill (David DeLao) to Asher Siegel (Nathan Fielder) as they wait together for the gaming floor’s overhead lighting to shift. This is Asher’s sole appar...
2023-11-21 06:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post
12/3, 1pm & 7pm: MINORITY REPORT
12/6, 7pm: ROBOCOP
12/10, 1pm & 7pm: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
12/13, 7pm: BATTLE ROYALE
12/17, 1pm & 7pm: BLADE RUNNER
12/20, 7pm: DREDD
12/...
“There’s no such thing as a perfect city,” says Elizabeth Siegel (Emma Stone), donning a dazzling fake smile for the benefit of the empty closet in which she’s recording voiceover for the r...
2023-11-14 23:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post
How often do you get to watch a medium evolve right in front of you? Before Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner’s Scavengers Reign, adult genre animation in America hadn’t so much as t...
2023-11-10 22:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the sticky heat of early morning, frustrated writer Barton Fink (John Turturro) stares at his sleeping lover Audrey Taylor’s (Judy Davis) back as a mosquito lights on her and begins to feed. T...
2023-11-06 02:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
11/1, 7pm: 8½
11/5, 1pm & 7pm: BARTON FINK
11/8, 7pm: MADELINE'S MADELINE
11/12, 1pm & 7pm: THE FOUNTAIN
11/15, 7pm: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD
11/19, 1pm & 7pm: CLOSE-UP
11...
Noon: ROPE
2pm: HALLOWEEN
4pm: AMERICAN PSYCHO
6pm: IN THE CUT
8:30pm: HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
10pm: CURE
Midnight: STOKER
Don’t come near me, thinks the wounded and broken Griffith (Kevin T. Collins) as Guts (Marc Diraison) races after him. If you come close to me, if you so much as touch my shoulder, w...
2023-10-27 03:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post
“Can you find the wolves in this picture?” asks the caption of an engraving in a book on Osage tribal history and custom. It’s a child’s question in a book for children, the equivalent of a...
2023-10-26 02:18:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Penned and directed by William Peter Blatty, author of the original Exorcist novel and screenwriter of its famous adaptation, The Exorcist I
Penned and directed by William Peter Blatty, autho...
2023-10-25 12:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A PDF of my new novella, the medieval dinosaur epic WYRM! I'll have exciting news about it soon, but in the meantime, enjoy!
2023-10-20 06:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post
“In every seed,” says religious convert Dillon (Charles S. Dutton) as the mangled bodies of Newt and Hicks, Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) surrogate daughter and love interest respectively in th...
2023-10-19 05:16:32 +0000 UTC View Post
If Mike Flanagan didn’t suffer from such a pressing need to feed us a spoonful of treacle along with every pound of glass and rusty nails he dishes up in The Fall of the House of Usher, ...
2023-10-17 10:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A rich man, Trimalchio (Mario Romagnoli), holds a mock funeral for himself, pressuring his friends and hangers-on to mourn him as they would upon his death. A guest recounts the story of the Widow ...
2023-10-09 03:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! So excited to announce a day-long Halloween marathon of serial killer movies, beginning at noon with Hitchcock's ROPE and ending at midnight with Park Chan-wook's STOKER! Trailer by Vi...
2023-10-07 20:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It begins with a woman leaving. The statue of Venus, ceremonially raised from the lagoon of Venice to commemorate the dawning of a new season, sinks back beneath the tranquil waters, the ropes supp...
2023-10-07 08:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Why does Ezra wear the stormtrooper helmet when he reunites with Hera and the Republic forces? As a human being, why would he risk being shot for no conceivable reward beyond, I suppose, surprising...
2023-10-04 06:11:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In a dead house, a dying man ignores his stooped, haggard reflection. Adriano Chiaramida plays don Damiano “Minu” La Piana as something between lich and mourner, his milky right eye reflecting ...
2023-10-03 21:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
8/1, 1pm & 7pm: GOOD MADAM
8/4, 7pm: IMPETIGORE
8/8, 1pm & 7pm: THE WITCH
8/11, 7pm: HAGAZUSSA
8/15, 1pm & 7pm: THE NEON DEMON
8/18, 7pm: SUSPIRIA
8/22, 1pm & 7pm:...
It’s a rare scene in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover in which Michael Gambon isn’t talking. “Talking” doesn’t do it justice, really. He rants. He bullies. He declaim...
2023-09-28 13:46:17 +0000 UTC View Post
After last week’s light snack of fun fantasy stuff, it’s back to starvation rations for Ahsoka. The show’s seventh episode opens with an airless courtroom drama scene on a set that l...
2023-09-27 07:38:57 +0000 UTC View Post
You’d think Western cinema would be out of things to say about intelligent machines struggling with the idea of their own humanity. Roy Batty, Priss, AM, WestWorld’s sad sack torture d...
2023-09-20 19:32:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s stark how much better this (still bad) show is when it gets away from its ostensible protagonists. Even with sets that wouldn’t be out of place in 2000s-era Doctor Who? and a scri...
2023-09-20 07:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In the singular hands of writer, director, Chopper the droid voice actor, and showrunner Dave Filoni, Ahsoka’s fifth episode pulls off the impossible: it is measurably worse than the fou...
2023-09-13 05:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The Last Voyage of the Demeter isn’t going to pull in many accolades for its script, which at its best hits its marks and knows its lines and at its worst blunders into rushed and jumble...
2023-09-11 04:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post
“Don’t worry about me.” “I’m not. Should I be?” “What?” “Worried.” “Nope.” If the first fifteen seconds of a game of Pong, that pixel moving like molasses across th...
2023-09-06 06:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post
With Shiva Baby, her stunningly confident and masterful debut feature about a young Jewish sex worker and the cloying, interdependent, overwhelming community around her, director Emma Seli...
2023-09-03 06:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post
9/3, 1pm & 7pm: Big Trouble in Little China
9/6, 7pm: Escape from New York
9/10, 1pm & 7pm: The Thing
9/13, 7pm: Starman
9/17, 1pm & 7pm: Christine
9/20, 7pm: In the Mout...
There’s no need to set Ahsoka alongside Andor to make its failings abundantly clear, but when it transplants Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) from Andor’s tense, swe...
2023-08-30 18:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s always been something gay about Jeremy Irons, some quavering inner sissiness to his poshly gravel-voiced demeanor and roughened cut-glass features. His ability to radiate this uncertain i...
2023-08-28 16:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post