I desperately want to love Yorgos Lanthimos’ films. His caustic, often disturbing style shows shades of Stanley Kubrick a la A Clockwork Orange and the best moments of both The Lobster and The Killing of A Sacred Deer are flat…
James Franco Becomes Bad Movie Royalty In First Disaster Artist Trailer.
Anybody who loves kicking back with a few drinks and watching a terrible movie has undoubtedly seen The Room at least once. Writer/Director/Star/Jesus Figure Tommy Wiseau has become a cult icon and it was only a matter of time before…
Movie Review: A Ghost Story
David Lowery’s A Ghost Story before the Sundance Film Festival even began puts A24 in a tight position because while this avant-garde poltergeist drama certainly fits their pedigree, it’s going to have a very difficult time finding an audience. It’s…
Interview: Trey Edward Shults for “It Comes at Night”
There is a feeling that good horror films elicit. Something almost primal that triggers our survival instinct even though we are never really in danger. Newer horror films have been disappointing, usually more interested in cheap scares and franchising. From…
Movie Review: It Comes At Night
Most studios have the same mindset when it comes to horror films. Move a few doors with strings, have a woman bend backwards while screaming, blame it all on a ghost, and go straight to the bank. Frankly, it makes…
Sundance 2017 Review: A Ghost Story
To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here Man, it must be a nightmare to work at the A24 marketing department right now. The heavyweight indie studio purchased David Lowery’s A Ghost Story before the Sundance…
Movie Review: Trespass Against Us
Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us is the Parenthood of crime movies. It’s a story about how to raise a family in a unit so unstable that one false move could tear it apart. This certainly isn’t unfamiliar territory, but when…