Nothing in ‘Toil and Trouble’, the second episode of Dave Filoni’s lifeless Ahsoka, is framed right. The lightsaber fight alongside the dry dock fails to utilize the empty dock’s d...
2023-08-23 22:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s impressive how completely Dave Filoni manages to replicate in Ahsoka the stiff, lifeless feel of the CGI cartoons where he first made his bones as LucasFilm’s diligent, lore-lovin...
2023-08-23 08:48:22 +0000 UTC View Post
There are few forces in human civilization as invested with unreasoning power as the hatred of those with little for those with less. See how contempt and projected feelings of disposability flow d...
2023-08-18 06:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Flesh: The Bear s2e06-7: ‘Fishes’ and ‘Forks’
‘Fishes’
“I make things beautiful for them,” gasps a drunken Donna Berzatto (Jaime Lee Curtis) from the depths of wh...
2023-08-13 20:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to thank everyone for being so good-natured about all the errors at the start of the month, and about navigating resubscription. Watching a whole year of growth get wiped out by the s...
2023-08-06 19:37:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s a crime that Evan Dahm’s Vattu isn’t on school reading lists across the country, that it isn’t given to every child beginning to grapple from any angle with the horrors of imp...
2023-08-04 11:10:44 +0000 UTC View Post
8/2, 7pm: Eat Drink, Man Woman
8/6, 1 & 7pm: Tampopo
8/9, 7pm: Pig
8/13, 1 & 7pm: Big Night
8/16, 7pm: La Grande Bouffe
8/20, 1 & 7pm: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and ...
The evil doll is one of those hoary old archetypes of horror that, in spite of never having been pulled off as anything but campy fun, just won’t quit. Who’s genuinely scared of Chucky? Who sti...
2023-07-30 05:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“It occurred to me,” rasps Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) in Terrence Winter’s series Boardwalk Empire, “the basis of fiction is that people have some sort of connection with each ot...
2023-07-28 06:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
“Barbie has a good day every day,” the divine voice of Helen Mirren declares. “But Ken only has a good day if Barbie looks at him.” Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is deeply fascinated by ...
2023-07-25 02:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Is there a meaner writer than Jack Ketchum? God, I hope not. Off Season, his 1980 debut novel, is a nasty piece of work, bleak and cruel and shocking. An adult man dumps hot oil on a group...
2023-07-19 15:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A man in the throes of delusion, a tulpa living out the addled thoughts that birthed it, a midlife crisis turned rancid and folded back in on itself through occult body-snatching — there are a th...
2023-07-16 22:37:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Shooting emptiness is something at which Christopher Nolan excels. The trackless expanses of sea and sky stretching to the far horizon where they smear together, the endless gray beaches of Dunkirk...
2023-07-14 21:01:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been eighteen years since I first saw the now-infamous “cut to black”, the end of over half a decade of turmoil, resentment, self-sabotage, and slow decay within and around the Soprano f...
2023-07-13 18:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Wes Cunningham's (@vvesl) illustrations for each screening in the month of July!
2023-07-12 21:14:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The Idol is satire. It’s black comedy in the vein of Basic Instinct or RoboCop, mean-spirited and sharp, full of babbling record industry morons convinced of their own ...
2023-07-11 18:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The best part of War of the Worlds is something we’ve seen before. In a dank and dripping basement strewn with the detritus of the life of one Harlan Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), a serpentine a...
2023-07-10 18:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprawling and baggy, deeply flawed, and as white-hot with human misery as anything ever written, IT is the Moby Dick of horror, a reckoning with the interior unknown reflecting Me...
2023-07-08 17:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
“By tomorrow it’ll be like it never happened,” whispers Carol Malone (Meg Tilly) to her husband Steve (Terry Kinney) as she lulls him to sleep with a gentle massage. Abel Ferrera’s Body...
2023-07-03 20:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Ten people, treated uniformly as women by the show, sit in anonymous locations, discussing nothing, drinking from silver glasses which obscure both their beverage of choice and how much remains, en...
2023-07-02 22:28:45 +0000 UTC View Post
7/2, 1pm and 7pm: US, JORDAN PEELE
7/5, 7pm: SECONDS, JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
7/9, 1pm and 7pm: MOON, DUNCAN JONES
7/12, 7pm: INFINITY POOL, BRANDON CRONENBERG
7/16, 1pm and 7pm: LOST HIGHWA...
“This is the future,” says Stan Marigold, son and heir of real estate mogul and murder cultist Albert Marigold, builder of the luxury apartment tower from which Andrew F. Sullivan’s novel tak...
2023-06-26 22:17:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Comprising the serialized comics Dog Names, Someone Else, No Matter What, and Victim Impact Statement, Max Graves’ What Happens Next is a fiendishly i...
2023-06-21 00:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Ari Aster’s two preceding films — Hereditary, which is good, and Midsommar, which is not — feel very much like horror for the perpetually frightened. There’s nothing wrong...
2023-06-20 00:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t understand casting Oscar Isaac in a role where nobody gets to see Oscar Isaac. The man has good screen presence, he’s incredibly beautiful, but he’s hardly Clancy Brown when ...
2023-06-16 22:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a strong whiff of Velvet Goldmine and The Rocky Horror Picture Show about The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s oddball musical/Little Mermaid adaptation ...
2023-06-16 19:22:39 +0000 UTC View Post