SWAN SONG is a sweet and life-affirming tale with a fabulous Udo Kier as aging hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, the “Liberace of Sandusky” as he journeys across town to rediscover himself & reconcile with the past. Continue reading Review: A fabulous Udo Kier rediscovers himself in the delightful ‘Swan Song’ (SXSW 2021)
The kids are not alright. (And neither are the adults) Continue reading Sundance 2021: ‘John and the Hole’ and ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair”
A trippy folk horror for the pandemic era and a nerve-wracking road thriller from New Zealand – both offer thrills with a side of wooziness. Continue reading Sundance 2021 Reviews: ‘In the Earth,’ and ‘Coming Home in the Dark’
A film censor discovers an eerie horror film that sends her on a quest connected to her own painfully dark … Continue reading ‘Censor’ Film Review – Sundance 2021
From a period-piece werewolf film to a gonzo Western-Samurai-thriller starring an unhinged Nicolas Cage, and everything in between, this year’s varied selection of genre films set to play at the (virtual) Sundance Film Festival 2021 (January 28th-February 3rd) are sure to shock, delight, terrify, dazzle and provoke. Continue reading 15 Genre Films We’re Looking Forward To at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
A woman exacts revenge after a rape in this intimate, unflinching and unsettling slow-burn thriller. The relationship between predator and … Continue reading TIFF 2020 Review: ‘Violation’
Newcomer Taiwanese filmmaker I-Fan Wang has a blast with zombies and politics in this ambitious and timely gonzo zombie-horror-comedy-martial-arts-extravaganza. Get … Continue reading TIFF 2020 Review: ‘Get the Hell Out’
She Dies Tomorrow is a surreal and absurdist reflection and meditation on mortality. In other words, it’s basically all of us during Covid-19. Continue reading Review: ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ is the perfect horror film for our current moment
Both ‘The Lighthouse’ and ‘The Witch’ derive their horror from a place of existential despair, as relevant today as in the days of yore. Continue reading ‘The Lighthouse’, ‘The Witch’ and the Modern Relevance of Robert Eggers’ Old-Timey, Existential Horror
Into the Deep is an astonishing and bone-chilling true-crime documentary about a human monster hiding in plain sight. Continue reading ‘Into the Deep’ Review (Sundance 2020)
