I have never heard of Radioflash before I caught it on Hulu recently, but this is a damn excellent movie. The movie revolves around the odyssey of a father and daughter Chris and Reese (Dominic Moynahan and Brighton Sharbino) who’re trying to reach their grandfather, Frank (Will Patton) who lives deep in the backwoods after […]
The Spierig Brothers’ Winchester is a fascinating movie that somehow manages to take the genuinely uncanny life of Sarah Winchester (the wife of William Winchester and heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company) and make it boring. It’s surprising because even a cursory examination of her life shows how fascinating it is. As I mentioned, […]
I went into Richard Stanley’s (Dust Devil, Hardware) Color Out Of Space excited but cautious because as someone who’s read the work of H.P. Lovecraft since his early teens my expectations were (perhaps unreasonably) high. Then again, if you’re at all familiar with Stanley’s firing from The Island Of Doctor Moreau–to be replaced by John […]
When I started watching Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This I hadn’t read anything about it prior, so it was a pleasant surprise. If I’m going to watch a comedy I tend to prefer extremes in that it’s either insanely stupid, like The Three Stooges, or bizarre, like Top Secret. Though combine horror with […]
John Knautz and Trevor Matthews’ Girlhouse starts as an extremely effective fashion, giving us a glimpse of the man before the monster. And if the movie had continued along that path it might have been a horror classic. Instead it moves along another track, and introduces us to the movie’s protagonist, Kylie Atkins (Ali Cobrin) […]
Travis Steven’s Girl On The Third Floor is a pleasant surprise, a horror movie that manages to take tropes that are familiar to people who’re fans of the genre, yet manage to be it’s own thing. For instance, I can see instances of the work of David Cronenberg (Videodrome in particular) and Michael Winner (The […]
I didn’t hate Michael Cuesta’s American Assassin though I didn’t like it either. The movie is well-shot and cast with great actors like David Suchet, Michael Keaton, Scott Adkins and Sanaa Lathan and yet somehow manages to fall apart, particularly in the third act, which replaces some interesting human drama with James Bond-ish antics. Though […]
I didn’t make a habit of watching when X-Men movies in theaters because the writers didn’t seem to make any effort to understand the characters, so understandably they varied in terms of quality. Logan was released in 2017, and it’s such a somber, grim exercise that it at times feels as if it were purposely […]
I could not stand 2014’s The Maze Runner because I grew up on Young Adult novels and it felt as if it looked at the subject matter somewhat contemptuously. The Scorch Trials is as irritating, though in a slightly different way. It still looks at the YA genre somewhat contemptuously, but is so weirdly edited […]
Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep–the sequel to The Shining–is a great movie. I try not to to be hyperbolic in my praise but it’s pretty remarkable. It somehow manages to pull off taking everything good about Kubrick’s movie and revisiting it in a way that feels new and original. And something that has to be commented […]
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