SPOTLIGHT (2015)
Tom McCarthy’s sober, clear-eyed take on the Boston Catholic Church child abuse scandal, and how the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative team uncovered the story,...
THE X-FILES – ‘My Struggle’ • ‘Founder’s Mutation’
For any millennials reading, it must be hard to appreciate just how much of a phenomenon The X-Files was in the 1990s. Here was...
THE FINAL GIRLS (2015)
Forlorn teenager Max Cartwright (Taissa Farmiga) attends a special screening of Camp Bloodbath, on the third anniversary of her mother Nancy’s (Malin Åkerman) death—a ‘scream...
THE BIG SHORT (2015)
There’s a point early on in The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s best-selling book about the financial crisis, where a voiceover...
THE X-FILES (1998) • THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008)
He’s the obsessed FBI agent who desperately wants to believe. She’s the cynical FBI agent who wears a cross around her neck and can...
THE VISIT (2015)
A found footage thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan may not be the most appealing prospect given the director’s recent filmography. While movies like The...
ROOM (2015)
Fans of Emma Donoghue’s achingly beautiful novel Room can breathe a sigh of relief; the critical buzz, four Oscar nominations (including Best Picture, Best...
THE REVENANT (2015)
Revenge is one of cinema’s most enduring themes, and with good reason. There’s something enormously satisfying about not only the payoff to a good vengeance...
Cracked Actor: Bowie on Screen
I don’t think we’ll ever see someone like David Bowie again, who died last Sunday at the age of 69. He was a transformer,...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Be Our Guest’
While the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel wrapped up a few of the show’s plotlines, there were still enough loose ends—Sally’s (Sarah...
The 88th Academy Awards – 2016 Nominees
I stopped caring about the Oscars five years ago, once I admitted to myself they don’t mean a great deal and rarely reflect the...
CREED (2015)
Predictability tends to be seen as damaging to a film; but it’s not a hard-and-fast rule. Familiarity deserves to have its praises sung, because when...