SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
byWonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American feminists who…
Film Review
BONE TOMAHAWK (2015)
byBone Tomahawk is, for the most part, a character-driven western with lots of talky scenes. It’s also a bloody and violent western with sequences…
SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE (2015)
bySleeping with Other People was self-deprecatingly pitched by its own writer-director as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes” when it debuted at Sundance. Yet…
OUT 1 (1971)
byJacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching Arrow’s release…
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
byWith Brooklyn, Carol, and now The Finest Hours, films set in 1952 are having a bit of a moment. Here, the story being told…
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
byWhile the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the…
DEADPOOL (2016)
byLet’s start with the good news: this version of Deadpool is a hundred times more entertaining than the first outing for the offbeat superhero,…
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
byBased both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride & Prejudice…
THE LOBSTER (2015)
byIt has been clear for some time that the leading lights of the ‘weird wave’ of Greek cinema would not be able to remain…
HAIL, CAESAR! (2016)
byThe Coen brothers’ filmography is heavily populated with desks and the men who sit behind them. In the Coens’ universe, desks serve to define…
DAD’S ARMY (2016)
byAmong the fine tradition of classic British sitcoms, few stand as revered—or, indeed, as British—as Dad’s Army. Set during World War II, this beloved…
GOOSEBUMPS (2015)
byIf you grew up in the ’90s, there’s a good chance R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps books were one of your formative forays into fiction. A…