This is what you need to know about EVIL DEAD BURN. It is a masterpiece of its genre. It does not, however, transcend that genre. Not really. If you love the garish gore that is the trademark of this franchise, you will adore it. If dangling entrails and exposed bones, lots of them, don’t work… Read More »
THE INVITE
THE INVITE is a blisteringly brilliant dissection of relationship dynamics and the effects of radical honesty on self-delusion. Taking place over the course of one evening, two couples will get more out of their revelatory get-together than charcuterie and tequila shots. By the end, we will have gotten to know them with all their faults,… Read More »
BLACK BOX
BLACK BOX is a solid horror film that indulges in the tropes of the genre, specifically the airplane in peril sub-genre, but manages to avoid most of the clichés. Blending found footage and some slick direction, the scares are earned and the story does a fine job of offering up some surprises that throw both… Read More »
STOP! THAT! TRAIN!
Click here for the flashback interview with director Adam Shankman for ROCK OF AGES. STOP! THAT! TRAIN! continues the fine tradition of AIRPLANE! and POLICE SQUAD delivering so many jokes per second that the sheer volume becomes the best joke of all. That’s saying a great deal for a film that is a drag queen… Read More »
OBSESSION
The familiar theme in OBSESSION is given a bracing re-boot by filmmaker Curry Barker. While the narrative addresses the oft considered dangers of getting exactly what you wish for, the subtext, that bursts through with the force of a spurting aorta, deals firmly with the insidious nature of male toxicity, female objectification, and what happens… Read More »
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY
Click here for the flashback interview with Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt for THE END OF THE TOUR. OVER YOUR DEAD BODY is a bristling black comedy that perfectly balances the genuine terror of psychopaths on the loose with the tragedy of a marriage gone very, very bad. And makes them both hilarious. Not an… Read More »
NORMAL
Bob Odenkirk has slipped comfortably into the category of unlikely action hero. Just an ordinary guy who, when thrown into extraordinary circumstances, rises to the occasion with a deadpan quip and a lethal ability to stay alive. And so it is with NORMAL, his follow-up to NOBODY and NOBODY 2, wherein he essays Ulysses, a… Read More »
LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY
It is only fair to give Lee Cronin points for wanting to expand the horizons of what a horror film about a mummy can be, but in LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY, that is pretty much the where originality ends. This overlong and gore-drenched exercise has a slap-dash quality to its writing coupled with putatively intelligent… Read More »
SEND HELP
The fruits of entitlement face off with workers controlling the means of production in Sam Raimi’s scathingly brilliant, and wickedly funny, take on gender politics and economic power, SEND HELP. Sure, we’ve seen this scenario before in THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON, SWEPT AWAY (the Wertmuller version, please), and most recently in TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, which owes… Read More »
CRIME 101
Click here for the flashback interview with Bart Layton for AMERICAN ANIMALS. Sometimes an ending can make or break a film. And so it is with CRIME 101, a thoughtful meditation on what happens when following the rules just doesn’t pay off. The payoff to a narrative that could have used some tightening is not… Read More »
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