Year of the Month: GIRL TROUBLE, by Holly Goddard Jones
We live, I’ve heard, in a civilized country, in a civilized time. – “Parts,” by…
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
Before helming Hereditary, director Ari Aster took an even more brutal look at family dysfunction…
Too Often, Echo In The Canyon Reduces Complex Rock Stars to Caricatures
Back in the 1960s, the introduction of The Beatles into the music scene basically turned…
Too Many Lifeless Aspects Drag The Dead Don’t Die Down
In the quiet small American town of Centerville, some strange occurrences are happening. Just when…
Year of the Month: D.O.A.
D.O.A. has had an unusual influence on noir. Its dialogue is pedestrian, its story is…
The Mysteries of the Cosmos End Up Being Pretty Boring in Men in Black: International
Good luck trying to remember Men in Black: International the moment it’s over, this is…
Film on the Internet: BORN TO BE BAD
Nicholas Ray’s Born to Be Bad is a great noir-inflected women’s picture, but in culling…
ROCKETMAN
Backlit by the white hot lights of his fame, Elton John (Taron Egerton) bursts through…
Film on the Internet: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972)
Sometimes I have an itch that can only be scratched by a splashy ensemble disaster…
The Intruder Is Insultingly Forgettable
MILD SPOILERS FOR THE INTRUDER WITHIN Scott Howard (Michael Ealy) and Annie Howard (Meagan Good)…